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= Stolen Generations: What were they? =

A dark time in the history of Australia was during the nineteen hundreds. The Aborigines and the Europeans were more in conflict than ever before. The Europeans investigated the means of how Aboriginal children were brought up and came to a misjudged conclusion that caused a national wide decision to be made, which is now viewed as immoral and led to the pain and suffering to thousands of innocent children.

The average time between the 1900s and the 1970s is now often referred to as the “stolen generations.” The stolen generations are simply that of which is stated by the name. The generations of children that were removed from their parents.

In the 1800s and start of the 1900s, the Europeans investigated the lifestyle of Aborigines and reported on how children were raised. They determined that the parents of the children were bad people and that the women neglected their children. The Europeans viewed the Aborigines as an inferior race and believed that they lived poor lives with no rewards.

The Europeans decided to act. They thought that the Aborigines would benefit from changing their lifestyle, and the children would be in better hands if they lived with white families. Little did they know how wrong they were. Half-caste children (children that were half aboriginal and half white) were removed from their parents when they were very young. They would then be placed in institutes while waiting to be placed in a white family’s home.

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