Indigenous kids in care more likely to experience poor health later in life: report – NanaimoNewsNOW

Feb 21, 2025

OTTAWA — Indigenous people who were in government care as children experience poorer health and socioeconomic outcomes later in life than those who were never in care, a new Statistics Canada report says.

They suffer higher rates of disability, lower self-rated health levels and more homelessness, and are more likely to struggle to meet basic household needs, the report says.

Statistics Canada says that despite the closure of residential schools and the end of the Sixties Scoop — the large-scale removal of Indigenous children from their homes for adoption — family separation continues to be “disproportionately high in Indigenous communities.”

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