[BoLevi]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I haven't fostered a single native kid who's parents weren't sent to residential school, not one in twenty years, the few that talked about it told of experiences so grim and hideous that other than the absence of a gas chamber at the end the holocaust is the only parallel I can think of, I dont know how good native parenting was before we took away everything they had, their culture, language, sense of pride and replaced it with nothing but shame and usually a childhood of physical and sexual abuse but after we had finished they was not a hope in hell most native adults would have much chance of being able to parent effectively.

Absolutely agree.