The Sixties Scoop: A Literature Review Prepared by the Manitoba Association of Friendship Centres
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Author/Creator
Ryan Paradis
Description
The term "Sixties Scoop" refers to child welfare services' practice of removing children from their homes and communities and fostering them out to pre-dominantly white, middle-class families and institutions, often far from their homes. Covers period from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s.