Child Welfare System And The Overrepresentation Of Aboriginal Children

Every system, it is set up in a way to disadvantage individuals who do not identify as a heterosexual white male or woman. In this case, I am speaking about the child welfare system and the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children. In terms of investigation of maltreatment, Aboriginal children are higher than those involving non-Aboriginal children (Hick & Stokes, 2016). The overrepresentation of Aboriginal children can be linked to the sixties scoops, colonization, and residential schools. First Nation communities were seen as savages by the Europeans because they did not fit in the western view they were not seen as cable of providing and taking care of their children, so they decided to “save” these children. This meant residential schools,