# Sixties Scoop

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. The government practice of forcibly taking Aboriginal children away from their families to be brought up in foster care or adopted into white families, which occurred from the late 1950s until the 1980s.

## Etymology
Coined in the research paper Native Children and the Child Welfare System by Patrick Johnston in 1983.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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