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Coldrey, Barry – Children & Society, 2001
Explores reasons for the abuse phenomenon throughout traditional residential care provided for boys and young men in the United Kingdom. Addresses specifically the severe discipline which often became abusive, the presence of sexual abuse, severe staff reaction to resistance, and the similarities of regimen across the spectrum of traditional care…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Cultural Traits, Foreign Countries
Fournier, Suzanne; Crey, Ernie – 1997
A deliberate policy to separate and forcibly assimilate Aboriginal First Nations children into the mainstream has pervaded every era of Aboriginal history in Canada. Each era saw a new reason to take Aboriginal children away from their homes, placing them in residential schools, foster care, or non-Aboriginal adoptive families. In the words of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools