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Originally Posted by Argonavis
The "stolen generation" is a romantic myth. There are no documented cases of aboriginal children being removed from their families for anything other than welfare reasons. For abuse and or neglect. There have been court cases on this. Lowitja O'Donoghue, for one, has publically admitted that she had far more opportunities after being adopted out and "looked after". The Rabbit Proof Fence movie was a great story, but it was also a work of pure fiction.
As to the poor powerless people, I think homeless, the mentally ill and abused children need to be looked after if we are to consider ourselves civilised. One of the sad trends of today is to de-institutionalise the mentally ill so that they roam the streets, and to leave aboriginal children in situations of abuse.
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So very not true! read my earlier post, these kids were taken at 2 and 3 day old while still in the hospital. Neglect and abuse had not even a chance to happen before they were whisked away.
Neglect and abuse were just some of the smoke screen excuses to raise lighter skinned aboriginal children in a white society.
Many of these kids suffered abuse at the hands of thier foster families, many were nothing more than slave labour on pig and cattle farms
I could site dozens of examples not just my immeadiate family.
Ive worked for years amongst the aboriginal missions in the NT, QLD and SA.
I also have a brother who is a church missionary who specializes in Aboriginal education, both of us have developed a first hand knowledge based on fact not romantic myth.
Some people believe the Holocaust never happened, man never landed on the moon and that the earth is flat.