The Stolen Generation - Implications of Australian law on the children of the stolen generation.

(OHP 1)
Bessy Flower was born in 1943 and at the age of 19 months was
forcibly removed from her mother's arms in the South-West of
Western Australia. Bessy spent 14 years of her life at the
Annesfield native institution where she was refused correspondence
with her parents and suffered ongoing sexual abuse. Not to mention
malnutrition and humiliation.
In 1788, aboriginal children like Bessy were first taken from
their families and placed in missions and institutions.(OHP 2)
But, it was only after World War 2 that the number increased,
because of the introduction of the "Assim…