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Originally Posted by Makedde
Childrens Services take children away all the time, and I imagine some of those children suffer emotionally - should they be compensated?
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Yes, actually, depending on the circumstances.
There is a class action in progress in Australia at the moment to compensate children who were placed in foster care and then abused etc.
Righting wrongs has to start somewhere. The `everybody does it' argument kind of just doesn't wash with some things. Neither does the `move on' argument. Nor, for that matter, does the `the end justifies the means' argument. Yes, a small proportion of those children were removed because of the circumstances of their lives. But that was a small percentage, and the predominant reason for the removals -
that was written into our legislation - was to `cleanse' the aboriginal race.
Some things need to be apologised for, and need to be made right. That's what makes us human.
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Originally Posted by Makedde
I am so ignorant I didn't even know Canada has Aboriginals.
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`Aboriginal' is a generic term for natives. Native Americans are aboriginals. Our indiginous population are aboriginals. The dictionary definition is `describes a person or living thing that has existed in a country or continent since the earliest time known to people'