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2009-11-15 Down Under

Australian & British Prime Minister to apologize to 500,000 Australians

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Posted by Oztralian 2009-11-15 17:12|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The American experience.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-15 18:25|| 2009-11-15 18:25|| Front Page Top

#2 From the comments:
"My nan searched her whole adult life for the 2 sisters and brother that were stolen from her family and were 2 shipped off to canada and 1 to America as servants (nice way to say slave) to well to do families."
Ok, when the heck did the Brits send orphans to the US!?
Didn't we have enough orphans of our own by the 20th century - did we really need to import British children? I know there were British evacuees during WWII - but IIRC, they were sent with the consent of their families, and they (the families) really had to pull strings to get their children sent to what was perceived as safety in the US.
This comment struck me as really ... curious. Did Brit social/church services in the late 19th and 20th centuries have a policy of shipping children to the US to be servants!?

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2009-11-15 19:26|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-11-15 19:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Next up, Rudd will apologize to all those who were NOT taken from their abusive and neglectful parents.

Crimony. The comments are full of tales of beatings and servitude. This was the way of the world at that time, and many children who grew up with their biological parents experienced the same thing.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2009-11-15 21:51|| 2009-11-15 21:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably meant Canada, Sgt. Mom. I can't imagine we'd have taken distressed children in to be servants when we had plenty of our own in orphanages who'd have been happy to have the jobs.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-15 22:09|| 2009-11-15 22:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Heck,Rudd needs to apologize to all Australians - for being Rudd.

Posted by Aussie Mike 2009-11-15 22:29|| 2009-11-15 22:29|| Front Page Top

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