As the example of extensive research into the effects and consequences of uprootedness on the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal children in Australia shows, being uprooted can generate:
- Low self esteem and feelings of worthlessness
- Loss of identity
- Loneliness
- Mistrusting everyone
- Deep distrust of government
- Internal guilt
- Violence (domestic or intrinsic, sometimes leading to suicide)
- Inability to bond with one’s own family (having met them/having had the reunion later in life)
- Difficulties parenting (having absence of positive role models)
- Depression; substance or alcohol use
- Lower life expectancy
- Intergenerational traumas (occurs when the effects of trauma are passed down between generations)