Left in Limbo

A lot of Australians have, in the 20^th Century, left care without basic skills – skills such as finding a job, budgeting income, renting accommodation or dealing with bureaucracies. Many people leaving care have had no clue about how to establish or maintain a normal relationship with anyone, either in a workplace setting or on a personal level. They can’t feel anything but invisibled.

Sometimes children are left in a dysfunctional situation which does more damage than separation can. Sometimes children are removed from one dysfunctional situation and placed in another. Sometimes children are removed from a dysfunctional situation and provided with excellent, loving care – but no matter what the circumstances, the experience of separation is, in its own way, invariably damaging. The impact of separation is inevitable, unavoidable, and unending.