Child Removed from Home by Social Services

Adler-Collins, Je Kan, Armstrong, Louis Daniel, Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children, Banks, John, Bird, A. John, Burnum, Burnum, Canadian Native Children, Carter, Forrest, Clare, Monica, Cole, Lynnette, Grant, Julia, Head, Bessie, Jagamarra, Malcolm, Kinder der Landstraße, Klein, Hans-Joachim, Morrissey, Neil, Mortara, Edgardo, Morton, Samantha, Native American and Alaskan Native Children, Orphan Trains of the USA, Pelzer, David J., Roach, Archie, Salter, Shane, Schreiber, Lorna, Smith, Robyn, Verdingkinder, Ward, Glenyse, Wilkomirski, Binjamin, X, Malcolm,

Adler-Collins, Je Kan

Adler-Collins was the child of a military family who was taken into care at the age of three when his mother shot his father during a domestic dispute. He was abused in care for years, but ... [more]

Armstrong, Louis Daniel

Armstrong's parents separated about the time he was born and he was raised in great poverty, first by his grandmother and then by his mother, with his sister. His education ended in the fif... [more]

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children

For several decades from the 1920s to the 1960s, the Australian government operated a deliberate policy of cultural genocide, taking young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children fro... [more]

Banks, John

Banks was a New Zealand National Party MP from 1981 to 1999 and has been Minister of Tourism; Sport, Fitness and Leisure; Local Government; and Civil Defence (he resigned his cabinet posts ... [more]

Bird, A. John

Bird is the founder of The Big Issue, the magazine produced and sold by the homeless in Britain. He was one of six sons of a poor London family. After his parents were evicted from their... [more]

Burnum, Burnum

Burnum was born Harry Penrith (he took an Aboriginal name after his great grandfather in 1976) into a nomadic Aboriginal family at Wallaga Lake, New South Wales. When his mother died soon a... [more]

Canadian Native Children

Canadian Native Children were, as were Native American and Alaskan Native Children , and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children , routinely rounded up and taken away fr... [more]

Carter, Forrest

Carter is included here specifically to debunk his "autobiography," The Education of Little Tree. In this he claimed to be a Cherokee boy, raised by his grandparents in the 1930s ... [more]

Clare, Monica

Clare was born in Dareel, Queensland, to an English mother and an Aboriginal shearer, Beatrice Scott and Ron McGowan. Her mother died in childbirth when she was seven years old and she and ... [more]

Cole, Lynnette

Cole was adopted aged two from an abusive family, by Larry and Gail Cole. She is Miss Tennessee and Miss USA 2000. She also works as a model and an elementary school substitute teacher, but... [more]