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Read [Martha A. Field, Valerie A. Sanchez Book] * Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children Controversial and convincing This book puts forth a compelling thesis: The mentally retarded should have full rights to manage their own sexual and reproductive lives. The idea sounds good, but most people would quail at its full implications. Should a severely retarded 15-year-old be allowed to bear a child? What about situations where parents fear a daughter might suffer from rape in an institution? Should they have the right to have their daughter steril. "Romance & Retardation" according to
| Title | : | Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674006976 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
Lib., Dunwoody Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. After presenting an overview of mental retardation and of relevant public policy and case law, the authors detail current debates about procreation and parenting among the mentally retarded and put forth proposals to reform the existing system. From Library Journal Field, a Harvard law professor and author of Surrogate Motherhood (LJ 11/15/88), and civil liberties practitioner Sanchez provide a comprehensive examination of the reproductive and parental rights of mentally retarded citizens. Opportunities for informed decision-making and access to sup
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. 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. 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 also explore the effect of these decisions on those they purport to prot
Controversial and convincing This book puts forth a compelling thesis: The mentally retarded should have full rights to manage their own sexual and reproductive lives. The idea sounds good, but most people would quail at its full implications. Should a severely retarded 15-year-old be allowed to bear a child? What about situations where parents fear a daughter might suffer from rape in an institution? Should they have the right to have their daughter steril. "Romance & Retardation" according to Felix. While this closely argued and exhaustively researched book focuses on the reproductive legal rights of our retarded adults, its real core is to ask: Why should retarded people be deprived of the same rights the rest of us enjoy simply because they are retarded.The book punctures the veil of silence around our automatic presumptions about these people that underlies our assumptions of the necessity and goodness of paternalistic r. "Inspiring and helpful" according to Dee Liggett. This book is fabulous and it is one of a kind. I found it helpful as a guardian often faced with ethical dilemmas about when I should decide and when "my ward" should. But the book is also written for doctors, policymakers, lawyers and judges, and parents -- in fact anyone interested in the assimilation of "the retarded" into the rest of the population.It is actually fun reading and set up so you can skip the parts less relevant
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