Stolen Generation Effects

Long term effects of the stolen generation. They felt strong guilt because Stolen Generation members often blamed their birth mothers and real fathers for not loving them, though many of them never really knew the whole truth of anything because they were either too young to understand or feed off the incorrect information that was given to them by the missions or foster parents. They also had difficulties in finding their religions, because of how often they have been brought to many different missions that they were highly exposed to different or conflicting teachings. Many of them when they grew up, had their own families had difficulties parenting or filling the role since they themselves were never exposed to affections or a real parents
“It’s hard going back [to your home country] because you’re not really accepted by your mother’s traditional people.” many often felt disconnected or rejected from other aboriginals “I can remember when I was 16 and a big group of Aboriginals were walking towards me and I was terrified. I was green as grass. You had no knowledge of the outside world. All you was taught was housekeeping.”—Iris Clayton, Stolen Generations member. They also had a loss of language “Many of us eventually lost our language… When some of us finally met our parents, it was almost impossible to bridge the language and culture gap.”, says Uncle George Tongerie, who had been placed in Colebrook Home at Quorn SA. Lee Nangala, 46 and another member of the Stolen Generations recalls: “I remember saying over and over again to Mum, ‘...How come we don’t have a language, Mum?... Mum, where do I come from?” from the years lost from learn any aboriginal culture. They also suffered the Loss of land. Many of the aboriginals sometimes did not remember where their traditional land was, many of the land was either claimed by the white people or lost so many were never entitled to claim native title over their