Author: James C. Dobson
Publisher: Brunner/Mazel Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Author: John Brooks Fotheringham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Helen Featherstone
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Martha A. Field
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674036840
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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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, these decisions are 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 people 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 reproduction 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 twentieth 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. They also explore the effect of these decisions on those they purport to protect. Detailed, thorough, and just, their book is a sustained argument for reform of the legal practices and social policies it describes.

Author: Barbara Gill
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0385482434
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Raising a child with a disability can often be more isolating and frustrating than any parent ever imagines. Finally, here is a book that honestly describes the inner needs and range of issues parents with disabled children face. Changed by a Child invites parents to take a moment for themselves. Each of the brief readings offers comfort and hope as they capture the unique challenges and joys of raising a disabled child.

Author: Robert B. Edgerton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674568860
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Explains the causes of retardation, the prevention of retardation through such means as genetic counseling and prenatal care, and the methods of helping retarded children on the familial, social, and educational levels.

Author: Kathryn A. Blake
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Laura L. Dittmann
Publisher:
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Category : Children with mental disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation
Publisher:
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Category : Intellectual disability
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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