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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This discussion is what happens when unwanted kids are born.  Institutions raising kids will never work out to the kid's benefit.  Many of those kids will grow up to be dysfunctional adults and produce dysfunctional kids of their own.  If only there were a way to prevent unwanted kids from being born....[/quote]

The death of the parents is what lead most into orphanages back then not parents giving them up[/quote]

Nope. Many disabled babies/children ended up in institutional settings (aka orphanages) for various reasons, such as the parents felt ill equipped to care for them, the parent were poor, the parents didn't want to care for them or the state pressured the parents to institutionalize them. It was VERY common. I was born with a permanent physical disability in Virginia in 1974 and twice the state and medical experts pressure my parents to send me to an institution because "it's not fair for you to have to raise a disability baby and it's not fair to society to have her out in the world." Both times when my parents refused and fought it, the state then urged for me to be sterilized This was in the mid 70s, not 1920s.

The Willowbrook documentary was in 1972, this is how people like me were treated, cast aside by their parents and society to be in an "orphanage while they wait for us to die.

Read the comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev80qEtp2u4

Remember when the war in the Ukraine started and all of these "orphanages" needed to be evacuated, many with children with easily identifiable physical and intellectual disabilities? Think all those kids didn't have parents? It's the same thing. In China, these orphanages are called Dying Rooms. When the disabled baby is dropped off, the orphanage basically leaves the baby in a crib and lets it cry itself to death. https://youtu.be/555lqEol7SU?si=KSdRC9JJHYS2v47L[/quote]

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