Identify five impacts of the stolen generations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The Stolen generations, comprising of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander children who were stripped of their natural families from around the early 1800s to 1970s by the Australian federal and state governments, incurred many and lasting impacts. Here are five key impacts:Here are five of the main effects:

 Cultural Disconnection:

 Loss of Cultural Identity: A number of children became isolated from their families and they lost their cultural heritage, language among other aspects. It led to the decline of culture and culture practices of the people within the affected regions, among them being;

 Generational Trauma: The loss of culture was also a reason of intergenerational trauma which claims that all the negative implications of separation and interruption are inherited.

 Family Disruption:

 Breakdown of Family Units: This lead to great loses and displacements of families that had children being evacuated for safety. Nuclear families were separated, which meant disruption of the supportive networks and prosaic of a generation.

 Impact on Parenting: People who decided to become parents and grandparents suffered trauma and it was revealed that such role models were not positive and able to shape a secure environment or the next generations, so the cycle of interrupted childhood went on.

 Socioeconomic Disadvantages:

 Educational and Economic Gaps: For generations, most families in the so called stolen generations were not allowed to go to school and were forced into ugly low wage earning industries. Lack of education left them crippled as they could not only fail to secure employment, but also employment that was well paid and sustainable to boot.

 Health Disparities: The socioeconomic has remained the same to today; thus, aggravating the health inequalities including reduced life expectancy and increased incidences of chronic diseases among the aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups.

 Psychological and Emotional Effects:

 Mental Health Issues: Majority of the Stolen Generations had major psychological issues ranging from depression, anxiety as well as PTSD. This was so because the victims developed mental health problems such as depression due to the breakdown of family and cultural relations.

 Identity Struggles: The emotion that was pushing for the uprooting and the consequent cultural severance led to problems of identity: self and cultural identity including elements of self-esteem.

 Social Disintegration:

 Erosion of Social Structures: The forced removals unbundled all the primary social structures in as much as communal solidarity was concerned. It was the cost of this demarginalisation that the mechanisms supporting social relations, community and leadership and the more general social capital and cohesiveness were eroded.

 Increased Vulnerability: Social structures became disintegrated; individuals and society was left more open to social ill, like substance abuse, acts of violence and crime.

 These impacts are present up to the present time in the lives of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders because more efforts are still required to begin addressing the harm that was initiated by the Stolen Generations policies.