Talk:Home Children

History
At the end of the history section, this assertion appears: "It was widely believed by contemporaries that all of these children were orphans, but it is now known that most had living parents some of whom had no idea of the fate of their children after they were left in care homes, and some led to believe that their children had been adopted somewhere in Britain..." This seems unlikely - *most* of the children had living parents? The current sourcing does not support this claim - I have not found it in the British House of Commons Child Migrant's Trust Report, or the article "Ordeal of Australia's child migrants". BBC News. 15 November 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2009 - which are the 2 sources which seem to be cited for this claim. Either support should be added for the existing sentence or the sentence should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.91.52 (talk) 23:36, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I think the Child migration article should be merged into the Home Children article as they both cover the same subject and they're both only stubs. Anyone then looking for Child migration would be redirected to Home Children. Richerman (talk) 11:45, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was no move. There is no consensus to support a page move at this time. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 10:22, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Home Children → Home children — The term is not a proper noun, so standard capitalization for article titles should be used. --RL0919 (talk) 19:27, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
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Barnardos
"One of the most famous placement agencies was established by Dr. Thomas Barnardo, and Barnardo homes is often used generically to describe all home children."

This sentence doesn't seem to make sense - surely you wouldn't describe children as "Barnardo homes". Should it read "Barnado children"? Richerman (talk) 02:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

A justice to exist :

I dislike this horror why the police and autority maken't action to stike the monstrosity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.230.65.225 (talk) 20:18, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Why the police not stop and arrrest them all!

And the FBI too! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.230.65.225 (talk) 15:32, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Borstal boys, too?
I thought from word-of-mouth family history and some vaguely remembered history programs that "Borstal boys" were also sent to Canada. --Monado (talk) 19:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

link broken
see note: "Child Emigration". Maritime Archives and Library. Liverpool UK: National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 25 April 2010. --79.181.136.79 (talk) 13:55, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

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Needs improvements
At present the article presents the schemes as solely compulsory and solely leading to abusive institutions. This is inaccurate; see Empire's Children by Ellen Boucher which gives a more complex and nuanced narrative. --Eldomtom2 (talk) 22:31, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Number of Irish child migrants between 1922-95
I am truly sorry if this is just a mistake on my part, but I was wondering whether there were 130 or 130,000 children sent to Australia from Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1995. Wikipedia states there were 130,000, but the cited source only mentions 130. 130,000 also seems like a wildly higher number when compared to that of the 7,000 children mentioned as child migrants in a different paragraph. RosemaryFowl (talk) 02:01, 14 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I have found an Irish Times article referencing 130 children from Northern Ireland who were sent to Australia (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/nun-accepts-grave-injustice-done-to-children-sent-to-australia-1.1925444), and a Guardian article about 130,000 children sent to overseas British colonies - including but not limited to Australia (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/27/britains-child-migrant-programme-why-130000-children-were-shipped-abroad), which might explain where the number of 130,000 comes from. RosemaryFowl (talk) 20:40, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
 * how many children were sent to america? 41.114.157.220 (talk) 15:53, 28 August 2023 (UTC)