The Lost Children

Thirteen Australians taken from their Aboriginal families tell of the struggle to find their natural parents

In Australia today there may be 100,000 people of Aboriginal descent who do not know their families or communities. They are the 'stolen generations' - people who grew up in institutions or in white families, knowing nothing of the Aboriginal history and culture.

'The Lost Children' is a powerful and disturbing oral history in which thirteen people describe their early memories of being removed from their parents, of institutions and foster families. In compelling first-hand accounts we learn of their agonizing search for their families, their feelings before the first reunion, the problems of trying to love and become part of two families and of their struggle to recapture their Aboriginality.