Sentences with phrase «aboriginal children from their family»

For more than a century, Indian residential schools separated over 150,000 aboriginal children from their families and communities.

1n 1909, the Aborigines Protection Act gave the Aborigines Protection Board legal sanction to take aboriginal children from their families if they could be found by a magistrate to have been «neglected».

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The schooling system itself, set up in the last century, tore children away from their families in, as the statement puts it, an «attempt to assimilate aboriginal peoples.»

He says it «cuts a wide swath of stuff» involving family, criminal, and human rights law — ranging from child - welfare cases to sentencing principles that require courts to take into account the over-representation of aboriginals in the criminal justice system.

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The focus of the mandate of the Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access, as set out in the order of reference adopted by the Senate and the House of Commons, may, in fact, be too narrow, and does not take into consideration the variety of family formations in Canada, which include families with parents with disabilities, same sex couples, aboriginal peoples and peoples from different cultures.