The term Stolen Generation refers to the removal of Aboriginal children from their families by Australian government agencies and church missions between approximately 1900 and 1972. According to the official government report, at least 30000 children were removed from their parents. Percentage estimates were given that 10-30% of all Aboriginal children born during the seventy-year period were removed. Although children of full Aboriginal descent were removed, in general the children of "mixed descent" were the most targeted.
Today, more than 10% of Aboriginal people over the age of 25 have been separated from their natural families under the child protection laws which were in operation in Australia well into the 1960ís.Many of these children were stolen, that is legally removed from their homes by welfare authorities or the police. The children were removed b
· They lived in, what the white authorities considered to be, dirty and squalid conditions
The Aboriginal children were being taken by the government and placed in these homes because the European/ White Australians feared them; they believed that they were a concern to the white Australians. They told the Aboriginals as well as the rest of the nation that they were being removed because they were living in bad living conditions, but really they didn’t want them to learn their people’s ways and grow up as an Aboriginal. They wont to breed the Aboriginals out so that none were left, this is way they tried to take more of the whiter coloured skinned Aboriginals, so they could marry they to white people, and they would have a white child.
A man called A.O. Neville was put in charge of all Aboriginals in Australia by the Australian government. To have an Abor
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