, especially newborns with their mothers. Her reporting took her to a hospital on Vancouver Island, where a mother was frantically working with Indigenous advocates to persuade B.C. child welfare workers not to take her newborn girl. They had already seized two older children.
Stacey, the child welfare workers conceded, was a good mother with a good home and a full-time job as a grocery store supervisor making $28 an hour. But they worried her husband posed a threat to the family, and so they took her baby away. Ms. Macdonald has spent the year chronicling Stacey and her family’s journey through the child welfare system. Their story illustrates how difficult it can be to get off the government’s watchlist, no matter what efforts a mother makes to provide a safe home for her children.
Stacey’s children are Métis, and in Canada, Indigenous kids are removed from their families at a rate 10 times higher than non-Indigenous children. Earlier this year, the federal government passed legislation to overhaul Indigenous child welfare. Ottawa maintains its planned reforms, which include recognizing the rights of First Nations, Métis and Inuit authorities to pass their own laws for children and families, will reduce the number of kids in care and keep more families together.
But many Indigenous leaders and child advocates are skeptical because few details have been released so far, and no funding commitment has been made. Further details about the reforms are expected from Ottawa next month.Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines.
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Do we know why the father in the second scenario is a danger to the children? Why is the father still in the home if the older two children have been taken away? Case of picking you partner over your children?
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