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What is the difference between the treatment of mentally retarded people now and during the Great Depression?
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∙ 7y ago
Simply they killed them because they thought they were possessed by the devil or they were broken. Sometimes they actually "tried" to cure them by putting them on something and spinning them really fast to spin the retardation out of them. But now we actually know a lot more about why they are this way. So now we treat them nicer and tend to there special needs and they try to make them a little smarter. Back then it was best to ship the kid off to a live in school for 2 reasons. 1 because it was a great embarrassment to the family and 2 because they were uneducated on how to care for a mental retarded person. Of course our views changed because people now know how to take care of a family member with mental retardation and most are no longer embarrassed to raise a mentally retarded child.
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Can a mentally retarded adult cosign for another?
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Family therapy can help relatives of the mentally retarded develop coping skills.
Are mentally retarded people sterile?
No
