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Excerpt from: Take Them Off The Human Scrap Heap It could be your next baby -– feeblemindedness strikes in the finest families. Yet thousands of such children and adults still live almost like animals in inferior institutions. With proper care and training many of them could learn to take respected and self-supporting places in society.... | ![]() Read Full Text |
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Title: | Take Them Off The Human Scrap Heap | |
Creator: | Edith M. Stern (author) | |
Date: | August 1948 | |
Format: | Article | |
Publication: | Woman's Home Companion | |
Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
Location: | vol.75, pp.32, 62-64 | |
Keywords: | Abuse; Advocacy; Attendants; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Confinement; Connecticut; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Employment; Epilepsy; Expose; Family; Identity; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Mansfield State Training School; Media; Medical Professionals; Medicine & Science; Neglect; New Jersey; North Jersey Training School; Parenting; Policy; Public Welfare; Restraints; Schools; Sexuality; Social Welfare & Communities; Southbury Training School; Women & Gender; Woodbine State Colony; Work | |
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