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[quote=JCNILE123,270102]20.3.13 Aboriginal women's rights as parents were constantly curbed. They were constantly scrutinised, and subject to special regulations and strict sexual codes of conduct. They were not 'free' to do their mothering as best they could. If parents failed in the eyes of the state, they lost the right to see these children, and to play a parenting role with them. This 'failure' that the women suffered in having their children taken away must have had a terrible psychological impact on their relations with these children, if they ever saw them again. Those implementing the policy told Aboriginal mothers to blame themselves. Anxiety, depression, confusion and most of all, anger and despair resulted; if not in the mother or father, then in the children who were taken away. 
20.3.14 Residents of 'institutions' such as mission stations required permits to stay, and their houses could be inspected by the Minister or a police officer at will. 13 This right to inspect was used extensively during the 1950s and 1960s in most States. Such inspections often led to removal of children; see, for example, the reports on the deaths of Thomas Carr and Clarrie Nean. Clarrie became a ward on the basis of his home conditions, though reports varied considerably. Muriel, his mother, stated he was taken away for no good reason: 'They were just snapping the kids up from everywhere, every mission, just sending them away'. 
20.3.15 It was the mothers, and to a lesser extent the fathers, who were blamed for their children being taken away. It was their fault for not bringing the children up like non-Aboriginal people, in the same material conditions. Children also bore great resentment against their parents for 'letting them go', feeling they had been unwanted, and not understanding why their parents did not fight to have them back, or keep in touch with them. They did not know that parents were often totally denied knowledge of their whereabouts. Some parents feared contact with authorities may mean losing other children. 
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