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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of my grandmother's siblings were sterilized as part of the eugenics movement in this country.  She was the oldest and already married and out of the hosue when it happened.  Her parents actually acquiesed in having this done.  6 children sterilized, all under the age of 16.[/quote]

Were all six of them developmentally disabled? [/quote]

Nope, not one of them.  In fact, they all grew up to be really successful business people, and all of them ended up adopting children.  I think it's just that they were poor growing up.  
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Huh. I was aware of programs to sterlize individuals who were deemed deficient in some way, but had no idea that poverty was a factor. This must have been around the time of the Great Depression, no? Lot of poverty going around just then...[/quote]

Um, a large portion of people selected for these eugenics programs were nothing other than poor.  Read up on your history.  See, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell.  "Feeblemindedness" was the excuse they used to sterlize thousands of people who were just poor and/or uneducated.  [/quote]

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