[after dark]

"has anyone here married, what in the old days, was considered a retard?"

In the old days any one who was thought of as not quite right was labeled as retarded. The landmark Carrie Buck case was based on eye witness and anecdotal testimony. Carrie Bucks mother was considered loose .Carrie Buck was raped by her Foster family . She was considered a second generation half wit. Carrie Bucks six month old daughter (She was raped by her foster father )was considered not quite right. Oliver Wendell Holmes had ,Carrie Buck, a poor rape victim sterilized. Carrie Bucks daughter graduated from high school with honors. It is possible some of the people labeled as retarded in the old days were not retarded at all. Eugenics is beneath contempt.

[litehaus]

NOTHING I said was meant to denigrate actual persons of less than average mental capabilities....just that we do, in our own ways, practice eugenics.......