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“A Manitoba First Nations children’s advocate says the child-welfare system is designed to keep Indigenous families at a disadvantage.
Cora Morgan with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs told the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women that the system is set up to apprehend children, not to support families.
The inquiry is holding hearings in Winnipeg this week and is expected to focus on child welfare.”
– The Global News, Advocate says child welfare system ‘eats up’ Indigenous children.
“Morgan said violence against Indigenous women and girls can be linked to child welfare because it not only removes them from their families, but also takes away their identity and self-worth.
“The system just eats up our children to the point where they lose value for life,” she said.
Manitoba has the highest per-capita rate of children in care and almost 90 per cent are Indigenous. The province said last week that the number of kids in government care dropped for the first time in 15 years to 10,328.
Morgan told the inquiry about a mother who had four children, all of whom were seized at birth primarily because of poverty.
Too much money is being spent on taking kids away from their families and not enough is invested in finding ways to keep them together, Morgan said.”
– CBC News, Child welfare system ‘eats up’ Indigenous kids, family advocate tells MMIW inquiry.
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Indian Country 52 is a weekly project by David Bernie that uses the medium of posters that promote issues and stories in Indian Country.
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