the most tragic aspect of this situation is that the vast majority of children are taken into care because of ‘neglect’. When one closely examines the definition of the term and its key drivers – poverty, inadequate housing and addiction — it is debatable whose ‘neglect’ that is: in the words of the National Children’s Alliance, “It is important to note that two of the three factors are largely outside of parental control”.
Native children were taken from their families and sent to boarding schools.
From the country's formation in the 19th Century until the 1970s, the children had to attend schools where they were stripped of their identity.
Many of the 150,000 children also suffered physical abuse from the staff at the church-run boarding schools.
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