Originally Posted by
Gra
Being devils advocate here....
Would the children have been taken if they were white kids...
From the stories I have heard mostly yes. If a white women was unmarried and living in "povety" (How that povety was caused is another argument) then the child would be likely to be taken.
Now it was enforced more rigorously with the aboriginal people, but it also happened to white children as well, in the same manner.
I tend to lean towards the fact that yes there were injustices done, but there were injustices done to all people in the name of the law, my mother waws almost taken by "welfare" a couple of times while my gandfather was working at the sawmills in the same era. Now he was employed, sober and they had a house. (Yes they were allowed to own a house, though they couldnt afford to, they were renting)
sorry lost my train of thought, but you get my drift.