Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation : Having and Raising Children / Valerie A. Sanchez, Martha A. Field.
Field, Martha A., author.; Sanchez, Valerie A., author.
2022
KF480 ǂb F54 1999eb
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Title Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation : Having and Raising Children / Valerie A. Sanchez, Martha A. Field.
Author Field, Martha A., author.
ISBN 9780674036840
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674036840
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2001
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (464 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674036840 doi
Call Number KF480 ǂb F54 1999eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.72087
Summary 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.
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Added Author Sanchez, Valerie A., author.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
1 Some Families
2 Public Policy, Past and Present
3 Who Are Called "Retarded"?
Part II: Procreation
4 Procreative Choice-But Whose?
5 Evolution of Policies toward Sterilization
6 Current Policy Issues concerning Sterilization
7 What Should the Standards for Sterilization Be?
8 Sex and Contraception
9 The Limited Impact of Guardianship
10 The Peculiar Problem of Abortion
Part III: A Proposal for Self-Determination
11 Self-Determination Explained and Evaluated
12 Necessary Limitations on Self-Determination
13 The Possibility of Varying the Rule
Part IV: Parenting
14 Some Underlying Rules and Issues
15 Written Law concerning Parenting: Important Issues for Parents with Retardation
16 The Social Welfare System in Practice
17 Reforming the System
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Cases
Index

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