Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising ChildrenEngaging 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. |
Contents
Some Families | 3 |
Public Policy Past and Present | 9 |
Who Are Called Retarded? | 23 |
Copyright | |
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Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children Martha A. Field,Valerie A. Sanchez No preview available - 2001 |