Stolen Generation Children

Between 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies. The generations of children being removed under these policies became known as the Stolen Generations. It is hard to even begin to imagine what prompted this terrible tragedy which has led to long lasting unimaginable consequences.
The removal of Indigenous children from their parents was not a new idea, it had been happening for years on the stations and reserves. The children of white men had often been taken away from their Indigenous mothers after birth and given to a white family. As a specific policy by the authorities, Indigenous children had been removed from their homes since the Aboriginal Protection Board was set up in the 1880s.
Indigenous children were taken away from their parents for many different reasons by the policy’s foundation was essentially a racist one. The white authorities believed that Indigenous parents were unable to look after their children properly and so they were removed.
For many years Indigenous children who has European ancestry were removed from their parents so that they could be ‘socialised’ into being ‘white’. This was a belief held by many people in the early part of the 20th Century, known as ‘eugenics’. It was …show more content…
Assimilation was base on the assumption of black inferiority and white superiority, which proposed that Indigenous peoples should be allowed to ‘die out’ through the natural process of elimination. This policy focused on the ‘half-caste’ children, who were particularly vulnerable to removal due to their fairer complexion. Part of the assimilation policy was to make Aboriginal people more ‘white’ through the influence of education. It was believed that by educating the children in the same way as white children would mean they would turn away from the ‘savage’ ways of their