Aboriginal Children In The 1900's

Indigenous children in Australia were unfairly taken from their families in the 1900’s by Australian authorities who held the idea that the aboriginal culture would die out. The authorities wrongly thought that the Aboriginal culture was a bad influence to the indigenous children. On top of that, they accused the indigenous families of abusing their children. But in reality, they had no proof; as a result, the Aboriginal tribes suffered and their family trees will be forever affected. Even though the aboriginals were treated poorly, it was by no means an isolated case. Native Americans were similarly treated in an unjust way.
The Aboriginals were a native civilization in Australia comparable to the Native Americans in North America. They were Australia’s stolen generation. These indigenous people were snapped off from their culture violently and unjustifiably. The
The people who run the institutions expect that by abusing them, the population will be easier to control and will become a better environment for the indigenous children to grow up in. In reality, however, the results are quite the opposite. People who are abused as children often turn into abusers themselves as adults. This creates a never ending cycle of child abuse in both Native American and Aboriginal communities. Often the excuse for taking these indigenous children is that they were being abused by their parents. Whether they were or not, the children are sent to institutions where the abuse is much worse than it had been at home. And later in life, there is a higher chance that the child will abuse his or her own children, which starts the cycle all over again. So why do people even bother trying to help these groups? They are only making matters worse by forcefully taking children away from their families, abusing them, and then expecting them to be well-behaved and obedient later in life (Giago,