ABSTRACT
Research amongst urban Aborigines in the 1980s emphasised difference where previously little difference between urban whites and blacks was believed to exist.2 Today, anthropologists realise that urban Aborigines and non-Aborigines, while seeming to follow similar life-styles, in reality differ profoundly in such matters of history, experience, language, kin-structure, world-view, child-rearing practice, attitudes and methods of dispute-settling. Mixed marriages, like others, break down and children are liable to be raised principally by one of the parents. Such children still possess, and are morally entitled to share, the separate set of relatives and the separate history, experience, value-system and world view to which their Aboriginal descent entitles them. Placing a child for at least equal time with its Aboriginal parent or grandparent means that it is much less likely to be discriminated against in the family home.
