The Stolen Generation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People - Coursework Example

During the period of 1909 and 1970, there’s about 100,000 Aboriginal children had been taken away from their own families and mainly of them are under five years old. Australian government believes that they would have no future in Aborigines so they rather brought th ose aboriginal Aboriginal children to ‘white’ families. There were many different ways to separate those children apart from their families such as took them to the hospitals and never let them meet their own families anymore.

In most of the cases, some rich ‘white’ families would pay money to bring them home. Some children would be taken to church missions or orphanages (English-Online 1910 ). According to the White Australia and assimilation policies, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were brought up in white families were promoted to be assimilated into the broader society. This might lower the existence of Indigenous people. In 1909 to 1969, the official government has a policy of removing those Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children apart from their families.

The Aborigines Protection Board stated this forced removal policy in 1909 by the power to take away children apart from their families without court order and even parental consent. Then those children would be put into a situation of adopted, mission dormitory or fostered. The Australian government considered that separating Aboriginal children apart from their families and adopted them to ‘white’ families would let them have a better education and better environment to grow up also more effective as they with the mixed origin Aboriginal population in the time merging with the non Indigenous population as they created (Reconciliaction 2007).

But in fact, those children had received a low education or even no education at all as they had been placed into new foster families and they also had been removed from the ‘Anglo values’ and colonial settlers employed them as ‘work habits’ and the purpose of this is just to avoid their families to pass them their own culture, identity and language to them, also most of the children who had separated apart from their families were borne by one ‘white’ parent and one Aboriginal and the main purpose of doing this to them was often due to the racial assimilation (Reconciliaction 2007).