Manitoba Indigenous moms dealing with child welfare face high mortality rates: report – Global News

January 22, 2026

Indigenous mothers who have their children removed by Manitoba’s Child and Family Services (CFS) have an increased risk of premature death, a new study suggests.

The study, jointly led by the First Nations Family Advocate Office of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) and University of Manitoba researchers, indicates non-Indigenous mothers are prone to higher mortality as well, but the risk among Indigenous mothers is greater.

The researchers, whose work has been published in The Lancet Public Health, analyzed 24 years’ worth of anonymous government health and social service data stored to determine their findings. They tracked data for more than 16,000 Indigenous mothers and nearly 78,000 non-Indigenous mothers in Manitoba from April 1998 to March 2022.

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