I'm not saying that the current problems are the result of removing children from their families, but I'm fairly sure the proliferation of such problems is due to the 'caretaker' attitude of white Australia.
Oh absolutely.
It wasn't like taking a kid from an abusive, drug addicted mother and putting them in suburban family with 2.4 children and golden retriever.
Mm, that's the point I was trying to make. People like to pretend that it was all just the same as child services/adoption etc now (well, a rosy view of child services now, I get the feeling it's still often pretty unpleasant) when it was completely different.
I didn't feel comfortable assuming anything about indigenous communities in the past, but I really need to learn to make clear the distinction between "I think this is true" and "Say, for the purposes of argument, that..."
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Oh absolutely.
It wasn't like taking a kid from an abusive, drug addicted mother and putting them in suburban family with 2.4 children and golden retriever.
Mm, that's the point I was trying to make. People like to pretend that it was all just the same as child services/adoption etc now (well, a rosy view of child services now, I get the feeling it's still often pretty unpleasant) when it was completely different.
I didn't feel comfortable assuming anything about indigenous communities in the past, but I really need to learn to make clear the distinction between "I think this is true" and "Say, for the purposes of argument, that..."