Indigenous mothers losing child custody due to housing policy failure, report says

Research finds children are ending up in out-of-home care simply because they don’t have a safe place to stay

Indigenous women and children have so few ways to escape domestic and family violence that mothers are losing custody of their children simply because they don’t have a safe place to stay.

New research has found Indigenous women are losing their children to the out-of-home-care system “through no fault of their own, but rather as a consequence of systemic failures in housing policy and availability.”

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