New Zealand’s Maori Child Welfare Problem

The outstanding but heartbreaking piece of analysis on the other side of the paywall was written by gifted researcher and editorial writer Brian Giesbrecht, a retired Province of Manitoba judge with years of experience dealing with child welfare cases.

Despite the title, it says not a word about “New Zealand’s child welfare problem,” but used this title because it was first published in New Zealand and because Giesbrecht is well read enough to intuitively realize that child welfare problems among indigenous minorities around the world share many common features.

If there were ever an essay that fearlessly, comprehensively, and sympathetically (to the children) dissected Canada’s painfully tragic indigenous child welfare problem, it is this one.

Don’t miss reading it.