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Child welfare



Just as the objective of residential schools was to “civilize” aboriginal children by removing them from their homes and culture, today’s provincially run system of child welfare does the same. Thousands of aboriginal children are put in “non-Aboriginal homes with little consideration of the need to preserve their culture and identity.”

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More Aboriginal children are placed in foster care each year than attended residential school in any one year.

“Like the schools, child welfare agencies are underfunded, often culturally inappropriate, and, far too often, put Aboriginal children in unsafe situations. The child welfare system is the residential school system of our day.”

The conditions that send so many Aboriginal children into the welfare system are connected to the “intractable legacies of residential schools including poverty, addictions, and domestic and sexual violence.” Reform of the child welfare system is “essential,” says the TRC.