Stolen Generation Effects On Indigenous People

The impacts that the Stolen Generation had on Indigenous people was that the Assimilation policy failed to improve the lives of Indigenous children by adapting them in white society. White society still refused to accept Indigenous children as equals even after stripping the children of their Indigenous heritage. Even children that were considered ‘half-caste’ were rejected, even though their skin colour was lighter and made easier for them to blend in. Many children that were placed in state care or with their adoptive families were physically, emotionally, psychologically or sexually abused (Dudgeon, 1997). Children were told their biological parents died or abandoned them leaving the child homeless and feeling unwanted. Indigenous children