The Stolen Generation policy is a cruel event that happened to the Indigenous people, they may have been living now with peaceful life but the ache and the horrifying memory they had experienced will never fade away.
The Aboriginal children had grown up and still struggling to have a healthy relationship with the society until now. Stolen Generation was an awful tragedy that Indigenous children had ever experienced. Between 1910 and 1970 an estimated 50,000 Aboriginal children were heartlessly removed from their families and most were aged fewer than five. Even though this atrocity happened for such a long time, this caused a negative effect on many of the home-grown children, they have experience mental abuse, losing their cultural connection and suffering to search for their identity. So do you think there is one single parent in this world that wants their child to experience the same illness as the half caste children had been through? …show more content…
Joy Makepeace who was taken away aged less than a year old stated that “I was hurting and had found no way of safety healing the pain. So I turned the pain, anger, resentment and bitterness inwards and did what so many of us do, which is to punish and hurt ourselves. Despite being loved, I choose to suffer from days of depression and I couldn’t see any hope in the