Stolen Generation Research Paper

Introducing Everyone’s Topic and How the Stolen Generation Started + Aboriginal Protection Act.
Faced by the Aboriginal children during the early 20th century was an act of disgust and a total mistreat of their personal rights. The term “Stolen Generation” describes the many Aboriginal and some Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families by past Australian Federal, State, and Government agencies from the late 1800’s to the 1970’s. These removals were carried out under acts of their respective parliaments, and the children removed were sent either to institutions or adopted by non-Indigenous families. Today our group will be elaborating on what the Stolen Generation was, how the children got taken away, bringing them home, the aboriginal protection act, a timeline of the …show more content…
The forcible removal of aboriginal children broke parental links, severing cultural connection to family and country. As a measure of remedy, the emergence of the Link Up services across the country now mean that increasingly, Stolen Generation members are able to receive assistance and support when seeking to be reunited with their loved ones. The journey that broken, stolen generation survivors embark on when looking to trace their family members as adults can be fraught with a wide range of varied and mixed emotions. Even when the opportunity to reunite with their family arises, it is increasingly difficult to shift the deep and understandable sense of resentment that is felt by many Stolen Generations survivors and their families. Over 40+ years since the stolen generation has ended, few Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have escaped the impacts of the forcible removal from their families they undertook whilst as children. The end result is a deep sorrow in the psyche or spirit for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, families and communities throughout

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