Sentences with phrase «removing generations of children»

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So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.

How were these 1960s revolutionaries rearing their own children, far removed from the traditional middle - class values of an older generation's «Jewish mothers»?

The Seventh Generation promises that by removing chlorine from their diapers they are not only protecting your child's skin but also help to reduce the amount of toxins that are being released into the environment.

One member of that family of chemicals was removed from children's pajamas over cancer concerns a generation ago.

Together, we are working to remove barriers to breastfeeding and to give women the tools they need to make informed decisions to ensure their health and the health of their children for generations come.»

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

More precise dating of the hundreds of often co-mingled human remains at the site could also indicate the relationship between, for example, a body and the plastered skull cradled in its arms at the time of burial: Were they parent and child, or was the skull a venerated ancestor, many generations removed?

The author also discusses the blood quantum rule, cultural appropriation, Indigenous use of intellectual property laws, Two - Spirit identities (Indigenous transgender individuals), the landmark Delgamuukw and Tsilhqot» in cases (recognition of Aboriginal title), non-benign myths about Indigenous peoples, the six - volume Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) final report on the residential school system where at least 6,000 Indigenous children died, Canada's Stolen Generations (between 1960 and 1990, 70 - 90 % of Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their homes and placed into non-Indigenous homes), Inuit relocations, the issue of access to safe drinking water for First Nations communities, the five - volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Indigenous lands, education, treaties, and treaty - making.

In terms of familial trees and genealogy, the term «removed» as in «first cousin once removed» indicates the generational distance between the family members; your first cousin once removed includes both your parents» first cousins (which are one generation removed from you) and also the children of your own first cousins (because their children are still cousins, but one generation removed from you).

Even before Bringing Them Home was tabled in Parliament, the existence of the Inquiry itself and its background research and hearings began the process of non-Indigenous Australians learning what Indigenous communities have always known: that generations of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed and alienated from their families under past laws, policies and practices, specifically because they were Aboriginal.

As it has been stated in many native title reports, providing such evidence generation by generation, while being subject to the strict rules of evidence, is a herculean task for people of an oral culture with a history of dispossession and generations of children that were removed from their parents.

The Chief Justice also suggested that Child Protection officers were reluctant to remove Aboriginal children for fear of another Stolen Generation, implying more children need to be removed.

Mohamed urged her colleagues also to think about the role of nurses and midwives in Stolen Generations policies that ripped families apart, removing babies and children.

One of their guest speakers, Andrew Jackomos, the Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People, has been sounding the alarm for years about the highly vulnerable «second stolen generation «of young Aboriginal kids who are removed from kin at increasingly high rates.

«While it's clear that improving the mental health of parents and carers of the next generation of Aboriginal young people must be a priority for closing the gap, existing research indicates that Aboriginal parents often feel unable to access mental health services for fear of their children being removed,» said the study's lead author Dr Anna Williamson.

our children were removed in the Stolen Generations as a result of legislation and policies of forced removal and assimilation

We can not afford to loose another generation of our children to misguided policies and laws that are supposedly colour - blind, but result in Indigenous children in this State being removed from their families to out - of - home care at the rate of 10 to 1 relative to non-Indigenous children.