The Condition of Women Living in Canada: Child Abuse in Pre-Contact Anishnaabek Times

The Condition of Women Living in Canada: Child Abuse in Pre-Contact Anishnaabek Times:                                                    In pre-contact Anishnaabek times, child abuse was not a social problem. Children were t...

My father speat 14 years of his life in a Residential school and thus I grew up without a father.  That was pretty tough.  He came out of that school "institutionalized and unable to love".  He was physically abused and was physically abusive himself.  My mother opted to be a single parent and left my father.  It wasn't til i was in my late teens that I would actually realize this was the best thing she could of ever done for my brother, sister and myself. She gave us a good life. The generational impacts have had lasting affects on families.  All the turmoil you see today our communities with all the abuse.

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Janet