Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children

by Valerie A. Sanchez and Martha A. Field

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006976
• ISBN13: 9780674006973
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"