text: On occasion, some misguided settlers try to say that removing these children from their homes was a "good" thing, but this argument relies on the premise that getting sexually-abused by kindly settler foster parents was better than being sexually abused by bad Native parents.  Only a handful of people I met in this position came out the better.  Many admit that they were abused -sexually or otherwise- by foster parents, and we will never know how widespread the actual abuse was because so many of these removed children met an untimely end through misadventure due to questionable lifestyles in adulthood...but we also know that people who live questionable lifestyles are more than likely the products of the manner in which they were raised, so even this would not bode well for the settler parents taking in Native children.
  
  I can only hope that just is served, but the courts usually pander to the mores of settler society, so I bet that there will be an appeal of this decision.