Margo is an Aboriginal women who had parents and other relatives who were forcibly sent to live in the first incarnation of the residential schools. Her parents grew up in these schools without learning most of the skills and capacities necessary to keep a family functioning. Margo's parents and many parents like Margo's, were not able to cope with the demands of parenthood and, without adequate education and employment, were impoverished. Subsequently, in the 1960s, Margo was also taken from her parents and placed into the residential school system. According to the text, what is the name given to the second wave of Aboriginal child apprehension?

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The name given to the second wave of Aboriginal child apprehension is the "sixties scoop". This involved the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families and communities during the 1960s and 1970s for placement in foster or adoptive homes, often outside of their own culture and often without the knowledge or consent of their families.

Margo Is an Aboriginal Women Who Had Parents and Other