Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation - Having and Raising Children (Paperback, Revised)

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.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2001
First published:	October 2001
Authors:	Martha A. Field • Valerie A. Sanchez
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	464
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-00697-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International humanitarian law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General
LSN:	0-674-00697-6
Barcode:	9780674006973

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