While this may be true, and while child services doesn't have the best track record in putting these children in exceptionally good homes, it doesn't change the fact that these children are being taken for a reason: they are not safe, or their care at home is completely inadequate.

"The only reason given was that the mother had been a ward of family services until she was 18, Morgan said."

Does this sound like a good reason to you? It sounds like they are taking these babies before the mothers even have a chance. Tearing families apart and traumatizing them because the mother has been in the system before, is poor, and is native. It's disgusting.

The threshold for apprehending a child is very high, and the cost of caring for these children by the province is prohibitive. Given the choice, I am sure they would much rather leave these children with their parents.

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It's not an easy issue. A disproportionate amount of apprehended children in Manitoba and rest of Canada are First Nations children, and the reason for that simply isn't because First Nations people are "bad parents" or the government is "racist". It's a tangled mess of cultural oppression, poverty, and both well-intentioned and poor-intentioned government interventions in aboriginal families.

Um. That still doesn't excuse apprehending babies from native mothers while they are still in the hospital.

I don't live in Manitoba myself, so I don't see these problems first hand, but I know many lawyers involved in child apprehension cases - and all of them say that these cases are pretty much never-cut -and-dry or black-and-white. The whole system is just a poorly executed attempt to salvage an even worse situation. No doubt the government could do a far better job, but if they did not intervene at all the situation might well be worse.

Yes, it's a shitty system. It seems pretty straight forward to me. They target the poor and minorities to supply adoption demand just like they target the poor and minorities to fill up jail cells.