Statistics obtained from the Ministry of Children and Family Development show that in the past year, more than three-quarters of Indigenous children were apprehended because social workers deemed them to be at risk because of reasons of neglect. To make the decision to sever the bond between a parent and child, it’s fair to expect a very high standard of determination. But in a rare case when a First Nation challenged an apprehension earlier this year to the B.C. Supreme Court, the province failed to make the case that taking a three-day-old infant from her mother was necessary. Today the mother and her six-month-old baby are thriving together, with support from their community, the woman’s lawyer says. Indigenous children are grossly over-represented in government care in B.C., and they are also more likely to face greater issues of inadequate housing, poor access to clean water and high poverty rates.Paying strangers to provide inadequate care of children removed from their families, when neglect was cited as a reason for removal in the first place. Generations of culturally and financially sabotaging Indigenous peoples—apologizing for the trauma caused by the Residential School System, and then continuing to tear children from their parents homes and culture under the guise of a different name. It’s shameful and it needs to change.
Monday, 9 July 2018
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