When children were removed from their primary care and placed in institutions, as many were, they became just another child. Therefore, their new caregivers could not devote as much time to the child as a parent. As a result, the child could not learn to be a parent. Furthermore, institutions were not equipped to care for the emotional and intellectual development of every child. These internships also introduced the children to a new culture for which they had no frame of reference. Unlike Aboriginal communities, non-Aboriginal society does not usually offer an extensive support network for raising children. As a result, when these children left institutions, they had learned the non-Aboriginal value of self-sufficiency, but they had no parenting model to fall back on and many (have) struggled to become parents.