Stolen Generations
It’s estimated that as many as one in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were forcibly removed from their families between 1910 and the 1970s — affecting most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia.
These forcible removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families and communities occurred because of race-based policies set up by both State and Federal Governments.
These children were either put into institutions, adopted or fostered out to non-Indigenous families.
They suffered a huge amount of grief and trauma; losing their connections to family, identity, land, language and culture. Most experienced psychological, sexual, emotional, physical and cultural abuses. This Grief that continues today.
These Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children have become known as the Stolen Generations.
The Kinchela Boys Home Survivors prefer the term kidnapped.
More information can be found at:
Bringing Them Home, Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families