In her article, Manitoba First Nations children's advocate fasting to raise awareness, retrieved from http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-first-nations-children-s-advocate-fasting-to-raise-awareness-1.2575655, Puxley (2015) sheds light on Manitoba’s “broken child-welfare system” as she interviews Cora Morgan, a First Nations children’s advocate. (para. 1). Morgan explains her plan to “go without food or water, along with five other women” for two days, in protest of the injustices associated with Child and Family Services. (Puxley, 2015, para. 1).
There are two key issues, which stand out while reading this article. The first issue is the considerable number of Aboriginal children living in out-of-home care in Manitoba (Puxley, 2015, para. 4). Morgan addresses the startling reality that …show more content…
Singha, Ellenbogen & Trocmé (2013), make the structural connection to Residential Schools by explaining that “the overrepresentation of First Nations children in out of home care extends a long historical pattern of state-sponsored removal of First Nations children from their homes.” (p. 2080). The practice of forcibly removing “children…from their families and [placing] them in institutions” as seen in Residential Schools (Nagy & Sehdev, 2012, p. 67), is structurally the same approach seen as Puxley (2015) describes Lee-Anne Kent’s experience, having her children taken from her and placed in an off-reserve foster care program (para. 8- 10). In both cases, the child is physically taken from the home and placed with an unfamiliar family/institution. This method enforces the statement made by Cora Morgan in Puxley’s article. She claims that the government is primarily concerned with removing children from their families, instead of a focus to implement programs, which promote family unity (Puxley, 2015, para.
There are two key issues, which stand out while reading this article. The first issue is the considerable number of Aboriginal children living in out-of-home care in Manitoba (Puxley, 2015, para. 4). Morgan addresses the startling reality that …show more content…
Singha, Ellenbogen & Trocmé (2013), make the structural connection to Residential Schools by explaining that “the overrepresentation of First Nations children in out of home care extends a long historical pattern of state-sponsored removal of First Nations children from their homes.” (p. 2080). The practice of forcibly removing “children…from their families and [placing] them in institutions” as seen in Residential Schools (Nagy & Sehdev, 2012, p. 67), is structurally the same approach seen as Puxley (2015) describes Lee-Anne Kent’s experience, having her children taken from her and placed in an off-reserve foster care program (para. 8- 10). In both cases, the child is physically taken from the home and placed with an unfamiliar family/institution. This method enforces the statement made by Cora Morgan in Puxley’s article. She claims that the government is primarily concerned with removing children from their families, instead of a focus to implement programs, which promote family unity (Puxley, 2015, para.