text: Although John Birch himself pointed out below that "Settler media tends to focus on issues and reports on the problems...", it is apparently considered uncivil to mention that there is no inventive for the media or government commissions tasked with reporting on said "problems" to go out in search of those who feel they DID benefit from getting a residential school education, or from having been rescued from abusive homes and put into better ones.
  
  It is not uncommon for adoptees in "settler society" to have fantasies about their birth parents, to imagine that they would have been better off in their original families. And adoptive families turn out to be not that different from "normal" families, some are better than others, it is the luck of the draw.