Paper Topic:

QUALITATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH

Bringing Them Home : The Report

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Institution

The evidence to the Inquiry shows a high proportion of children experienced multiple placements after their removal . A quarter of the Inquiry witnesses spent the whole time since removal to release in one children 's home , 14 with a single non-indigenous family , fostered adopted or both . 27 moved among or from institutions to foster placements or vice versa

The forceful children removal under assimilationist legislation and policies , led to their separation from their Indigenous families community and culture (2 . Many did not

finish primary school , were prohibited from using their native languages and were mistreated and forced to read the Bible . Foster families , missions and other institutions made errors through ignorance and paternalism trying to keep the children away from harm . Contact with family was restricted and strictly controlled (3 . Letters to and from were detained and the children made to believe they were unwanted , rejected or their parents were dead . Their names , birth dates and religion were changed so many cannot tell their origin . In an attempt to force the white people 's way and to alienate them , Aboriginality was scorned upon and held in open contempt , one of the most common experiences of the Inquiry witnesses (4 , 5

Physical infrastructure of missions , government institutions and children 's homes was poor and had insufficient resources to keep them sheltered , fed and clothed . Lack of love strict and cruel and inhuman punishment and denigration of the Aborigines was common . Verbal complains and formal...

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