Re: Looking for info on the treatment of people with DS prior to 1970

[Guest guest]

Read " Memory Keeper's Daughter " . It is about that very subject. Not

sure if you are looking for historical (with hard core facts) this

isn't that, but this will give you an idea of what it was like.

-Missy

> Hi all

> I am just looking for information on how the DS community was

> treated here in

> the U. S. Prior to 1970. I know the treatment was not good, but I

> am looking

> for website and or books that I can refer to. I am particularly

> interested in

> how various churches felt about the treatment. If anyone has any

> info on this

> subject please let me know.

>

> Thanks

>

> Sue

>

>

[Guest guest]

http://cdadc.com/

http://www.down-syndrome-facts-and-fiction.com/down-syndrome-history.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Down_syndrome#History

>

> Hi all

> I am just looking for information on how the DS community was treated here in

> the U. S. Prior to 1970.  I know the treatment was not good, but I am looking

> for website and or books that I can refer to.  I am particularly interested in

> how various churches felt about the treatment.  If anyone has any info on this

> subject please let me know.

>

> Thanks

>

> Sue

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Missy,

Memory Keeper's Daughter was a AWESOME book - one of the very few books that

I have read multiple times and enjoyed more each time.

Darlene - Mom to (13) and (11)

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Mitch & Missy Hunter <mm_hunter@...

> wrote:

> Read " Memory Keeper's Daughter " . It is about that very subject. Not

> sure if you are looking for historical (with hard core facts) this

> isn't that, but this will give you an idea of what it was like.

> -Missy

>

>

>

> > Hi all

> > I am just looking for information on how the DS community was

> > treated here in

> > the U. S. Prior to 1970. I know the treatment was not good, but I

> > am looking

> > for website and or books that I can refer to. I am particularly

> > interested in

> > how various churches felt about the treatment. If anyone has any

> > info on this

> > subject please let me know.

> >

> > Thanks

> >

> > Sue

> >

> >