A response to 'Socio-economic deprivation of Australia's stolen generation'

Abstract

The article under review claims to establish that the people of indigenous ancestry who were the focus of the report Bringing Them Home — those forcibly separated in childhood from their indigenous parents — have done less well in life that those who were not so separated. It does not establish this. There are two reasons for its failure. The article does not distinguish children forcibly removed under discriminatory legislation from those removed, but not forcibly, and in non-discriminatory circumstances, and it does not consider the outcomes for people who were so removed but who do not now identify as Aborigines.