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Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children
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Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children Paperback - 2001

by Martha A. Field; Valerie A. Sanchez

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Engaging in sex, becoming parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make, and for people with mental retardation, they have been consistently challenged, regulated, and outlawed. This book is a comprehensive study of the American legal doctrines and social policies, past and present, that have governed procreation and parenting by persons with mental retardation. It argues persuasively that persons with retardation should have legal authority to make their own decisions.

Despite the progress of the normalization movement, which has moved so many people with mental retardation into the mainstream since the 1960s, negative myths about production and child rearing among this population persist. Martha Field and Valerie Sanchez trace these prejudices to the eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early centuries. They show how misperceptions have led to inconsistent and discriminatory outcomes when third parties seek to make birth control or parenting decisions for people with mental retardation. And they explore the effect of these decisions on those purport to protect. Detailed, thorough, and just, their book is in effect a sustained argument for reform of the legal practices and social policies it describes.

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  • Title Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children
  • Author Martha A. Field; Valerie A. Sanchez
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press
  • Date 2001-10-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780674006973 / 0674006976
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.36 x 1.18 in (23.47 x 16.15 x 3.00 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Mentally Challenged
    • Topical: Physically Challenged
  • Dewey Decimal Code 342.730

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