My question does not affect the children personally but it does there families. My question is when the children who went to residential schools had children of their own how did their experience affect their own children?
Taylor, Jillian. "We Are Their Children: Kids of Residential School Survivors Share Their Stories." CBCnews. CBC/Radio Canada, 03 June 2015. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.
I read this story about a girl named Chartrand whose mother went to something similar to a residential school. The difference is it was just for the day and they went home at night. Chartrand said that she herself struggled with things like alcoholism. Her mother also struggled with things like alcohol. Chartrand grew up with her father and only found out about her mother's struggles when she studied it herself in university. Chartrand said that she plans to raise her daughter with the culture she herself was not raised with. This is an example of a second generation child who had troubles due to the residential schools.
Writer, Staff. "Residential School Survivors and Their Descendants Share Their Stories." The Globe and Mail. The Globe and Mail, 01 June 2015. Web. 04 Apr. 2017.
The lady telling this story was telling us about when she was a child. Her mom and step dad both went to residential schools when they were younger. Since they were not aloud to do much of anything and they were very abusive to the children at the school, when the children who went to the school became adults they went a little crazy with freedom. Once they got home from work they went to the bar and got very drunk and were now abusive to their own children. I don’t think they meant to hurt their children but because of the residential school messing up their lives they drink to feel better which results in them hurting their children.
Cole, Yolande. "Residential School Survivors Share Their Stories at Truth and Reconciliation Event in Vancouver." Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. N.p., 25 Apr. 2016. Web. 04 Apr. 2017
Now here is a different kind of story. The two stories before this were about the children who went to residential schools who had children of their own and how it affected their them. But this story is about a woman whose mother died at child birth. After that she was shipped off to a residential school where she was lonely her whole life. But she stated that she is no longer lonely because she has her sons. So this story is about where her children affected her not the other way around. They showed her what it feels like to love someone.
This question is one made up of different opinions and experiences. There is no definite answer to this question because of all these different experiences . Many stories I looked had a positive effect on their own children, some not so much. But one things for sure, the residentials schools did not just affect the child, they affected a family.
