Stolen Generation: Aboriginal and Torres strait islander health

Running Head: NURSING
Topic- Stolen Generation: Aboriginal and Torres strait islander health
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The topic for discussion here is Stolen Generation of the Aboriginal and Torres strait
islander health. For that, first we need to understand what is the meaning of the stolen
generation. To support understanding a brief history of the Australian aboriginal and Torres strait
islanders need to be considered.
Just think, how will you react if you one fine day you lose the ones you love the most?
And that too for the color of the skin? Speechless and hopeless right? Same is the case with the
stolen generation. In literary terms stolen generation can be interpreted as the generations of the
aboriginal children taken away from their respective families by the Government, welfare bodies
and Churches to support their brought-up facilities in those institutions or are being fostered out
to white people families (Cuthbert & Quartly, 2013). Until 1969 this was one Government policy
in Australia and under the Aboriginal Protection Act legal sanction was provided to the Board to
take children away from their homes without their parental concern or any kind of court order.
Cannot just imagine that this could actually happen and the Government will do it. Though the
aim of the children being removed from their aboriginality was to support their own good and
children were removed to accustom them to live like white Australians as the Australians were
just embarrassed by the black skinned Aboriginal race in their country (Dudgeon & Hirvonen,
2014).
But the aftermaths were not at all pleasant and the tragedy compounded on the part of the
children as they were encountered with racism and are rejected by the very own society which
once forcefully brought them there. The separation has a life-long negative consequence on the
lives of the children who are called as ‘stole generation’ or the ‘stolen children’ (Funston &
Herring, 2016). The children were remarked as half-caste mixed-race children who have no
proper existence proof. The policy of Assimilation based on the assumption of white superiority