These development stages must have made the Aboriginal child question its identity as it was bound in an Aboriginal body but lived a white colonisers’ social life. Also, the child was placed in white schooling, which resulted in them becoming unpopular; causing the development of socially inappropriate behavior and academia problems (Hoffnung et. al, 2010). The children were involuntary medical tests and often beaten or sexually abused. This physical trauma has scarred many, as well as creating distraught in the children’s minds of growing up not knowing their family nor true identity (Burns 2008).
Also, he points out that the parents were not allowed to get to close to the children, showing us that the children had no type of affection. The parents were not supposed to get close with the children because in most cases the children were going to die and they wanted the parents to be able to move right along. The author uses Aries’s Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life, a study of European attitudes toward childhood. By doing this enrichment assignment it enhanced my thought of how the Puritan children were treated. I never knew that the Puritan children did not have any childhood until I took this class.
Even though the system has made a great deal of changes, it has not stopped the problems just slow them down. There is still poverty, bulling and racism, not just in the schools; technology has made bulling possible, and to experience racism through computers, and cell phone. This is leading to problems that are more serious for some teenagers, even death. Some teenagers get to the point to where they cannot handle being bullied, picked on and judge for their race, it is too much for one person to deal with, the only way out to take their lives. An experience no parents want to see their child go through or experience the loss of their child.
One of the major problems is that aboriginal people attending residential school often have parenting difficulties. It is important to understand what impact the school has on families and how parental struggles are connected to their experiences in school. First of all, it is necessary to discuss the reality of school life to understand how it may affect one’s later life. The attendance to residential school was mandatory. Young children are forced to leave home to go to one of the 153 boarding schools across the country.
The stolen generation The stolen generations devastated many people, Caused families to be torn apart, made the aboriginals culture and beliefs lost and many families still are torn apart and many cant Why and who were taken? The stolen generation is a large group of people that were taken from their families in the twentieth century. The aboriginals that were taken away were all had “white blood.” They were taken to make them a working class and they were assimilated, which meant * Speaking their language and practicing their customs was forbidden. * They were taken miles away from their home land which meant they wouldn’t find their totems. * The children were told they were orphans.
They where institutionalized and left there to die. Their families did not want the stigma of having a child or family member who was disabled so they hid the "problem". Where it be in a mental institution or in their homes. It was as if they had no value because of the way they where born. Instead of loving and caring parents it seems that they where cold and unfeeling toward their children.
He was told by a social worker that his parents were alcoholics, and this was why he had been removed from his family and placed in foster care; all Richard ever wanted was the opportunity to go home to his family. As a result of being in foster care, the pain and emotional suffering he endured from not receiving the love and family that he desired resulted in Richard taking his own life. This is a dramatic result of the failings of the child welfare policies that were imposed on Aboriginal children. (
The history of Aboriginal child welfare in Canada shows how generations of children were taken away. As a social worker it is our job to look at how this affected the development of Aboriginal communities. Parents were never given the opportunity to use traditional parenting strategies, which means they were never given the opportunity to learn how to parent. This lack of opportunity to parent was passed down through generations and, with the effects of poverty, left many Aboriginal families without the skills or means to parent children. As a social worker it is important to recognize this history, and work towards offering preventative measures to break the cycle that has Aboriginal children ending up in care.
The lack of education in the poverty level is due to students who do not succeed in the corridors of our school system. They choose to drop out rather than continue to fight to learn necessary skills to graduate. The lack of marketable skills comes from students who drop out of school before graduation and are left to the streets to find menial work if any work at all. Also, in the poverty level of society is a deviant subculture that consists of drug sales and usage, addiction and low income
“People with disabilities have historically been viewed as a burden to families and society” (Drew, Clifford J., Egan, M. Winston & Hardman, Michael L. (2011). They have been separated from the main stream society within schools. They have been banned from regular classrooms and regular schools. They have not been allowed to socialize with their peers because of their disabilities, but this has all came full circle bringing students with disabilities together with other students with acceptance. This change is now providing students with disabilities education.