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March 07, 2017
Paora Crawford Moyle on Te Wahanga Parakuihi with Dale Husband
Waatea Team
Posted On March 7, 2017
Paora Crawford Moyle on Te Wahanga Parakuihi with Dale Husband
Why we need an inquiry into the care of children in state institutions.
In October 2016, Paora Crawford Moyle states, “Māori are 15% of the total population, yet make up half of the whānau involved in child protection processes and two thirds of children in the care of the state.
” With 73% of the youth in youth justice facilities, institutional racism, worker bias and CYFS being complicit in these staggering statistics shows it is not equipped to recognise that severing ties to whānau reinforces the impacts of historical trauma.
The introduction for this new form of child-removal seeks to wreak havoc in families across New Zealand, not just within Māori family groups, but to also familial ties between children and their families with particular focus on Māori and families within the lower socio-economic classes.
Not only does this discriminate by legal precedence, against the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand, but also reinforces the antiquity of class systems to the lower socio-economic spectrum of New Zealand European citizens as well.
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