Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation : : Having and Raising Children / / Valerie A. Sanchez, Martha A. Field.
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 polici...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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