From the late 19th Century to the 1970’s many thousands of Aboriginal children were removed from their families. These children, now referred to as the Stolen Generations, faced ongoing emotional and social difficulties because of their removal from their families (Oxford Big Ideas, 2018). The youth, once taken from their homes, were brought up on reserves and missions. Subsequently, these children's lives were impacted severely by life without their families and biological parents. The forcible removal of the Stolen Generations was a gross violation of human rights and had many fundamental, social and emotional impacts on the life of the Indigenous Australians.

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Life on the reserves, was more like a prison camp than a home. The …show more content…
It is clearly supported by the former secondary source and provides overwhelming evidence that such forced removal had a plethora of negative consequences for all Indigenous Australians subjected to the policy. Furthermore, as the reserves became overcrowded and more expensive to maintain, the government came up with the policy of Assimilation. They decided that the children who had some European descent (also known as half-caste or light enough to pass as white) should be sent to integrate into white families, so they would become more European. Only people of full Aboriginal descent were permitted to stay in the reserves to prevent them from dying out. This policy became the most tragic period of the Aboriginal peoples to date; ‘The Stolen …show more content…
Growing up without their families culture and then regaining contact with them was difficult for the youth, how had spent many years assimilated into white society and learning the white ways. As stated in quote 2 “I’ve got everything that could be reasonably expected: a good home environment, education, stuff like that, but that’s all material stuff. It’s all the non-material stuff that I didn’t have – the lineage”. This person may have had a better life in some ways, such as receiving a good education and living in a good home environment, however, they were never able to grow up in their culture surrounded by their family and did not get the learn about their heritage. Reports on the impacts of separation among adults aged 40 years and over, who have personally experienced removal from their families were more likely to have poorer health outcomes. These primary sources, corroborate with statistics gathered from The Australian Bureau of Statistics, seen in appendix 1 and 2. Graph 1 and 2, display the impacts of separations compared to those not separated among Indigenous Australians. In relation to health conditions and disabilities; 46% of people were assessed as having fair or poor health in 2008, compared with 36% of those who were not removed. There were also 78% of the