How one B.C. community is fighting to keep Indigenous children with their families

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In the Cowichan Valley, a growing network of mothers, advocates, midwives, doctors and elected officials is trying to take a different approach to address the ‘humanitarian crisis’ of Indigenous kids in care

 

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all politics and smoke and mirrors, is the priority REALLY the mental and physical health of these children, when there is so much alcohol and drug abuse ,how is this healthy for the children 😡

The US separating kids from their parents has us all outraged, but sometimes we Canadians forget that we've been doing the same thing to indigenous kids for a long time. We've also detained some children from migrant families as well.

Hard to know what to say....

If fed gov worked with first nations we wouldnt have a prob but kiddnapping kids on hear say is just another word for genocide

I thought residential schools were closed down? What's the reason that they can't be with their families in 2019?

Keep the government out of our lives for one. Settlers can follow suit.

If the parents would change no issue

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