hospitals? Comments?
2007-07-19 00:45:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Midnight, they stopped inforcing that law 60 + years ago.
2007-07-19 00:56:52 · update #1
Lola, they still do shock therapy.
2007-07-19 01:07:21 · update #2
Yes, I've read abut such stuff and seen things on tv about this.Very sad.I think people are better educated about mentally ill patients nowadays.
I'd like to think they have a better quality of life.
2007-07-19 01:04:01 · answer #1 · answered by CMH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been many things done in the name of kindness.
The belief was one of preventing the birth of children with a mental illness tendency. It was believed also that the person should or could not be a good parent to a child. Ergo, sterilize the mentally ill.
We have ways of treating illness now. They really had no way to deal with the mentally ill in those days. There were other types of treatments that were equally horrible as medical science progressed and found reasons and solutions.
We now see the repressive nature of such actions. Times change. Knowledge grows. Attitudes change.
2007-07-19 01:02:29 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess of Laundry 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, things changed somewhat after John Kennedy's sister was lobotomized. Things have changed again in PA, as hospitals are being closed, patients are tossed out onto the streets where they are picked up by police an placed into the state's jails. While the state promised more money to the community to take care of these people, instead what we have seen is a massive cutback on funding for people with mental health issues.
Note: I believe the term "mentally ill" is out of fashion.
2007-07-19 00:57:06 · answer #3 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It wld have been seen as the normal thing to do back then many families felt ashamed to have a mental patients as a family member in many community especially in Africa it was a taboo to have a child with such an individual since it was belived that some offspring of such a union wld result to be mentally ill.
2007-07-19 01:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by rayanna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know such a person who was simply uneducated but an excellent cook and housekeeper. She was not told that she could never have children afterwards. She and her sister were only in the institution because they were abandoned there. I grew up as a ward of the same state that did this to them. I became an unwed mother because they took all eight of my siblings and seperated us. Desperate for security of someone to love, I believed the first man to sell me a lie.
2007-07-19 00:54:33 · answer #5 · answered by midnite rainbow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What made You think that it has stopped? Do a little more research into the powers of the State over It's 'Wards' and see what You find out.
Happy hunting.
2007-07-19 00:55:47 · answer #6 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was that the eugenics thing? I heard about it somewhere --- they sterilised the mentally ill and the 'feeble-minded' i.e. the intellectually disabled and it had to do with trying to come up with 'healthy' genes for 'healthy' offspring. Not sure if I'm right...
2007-07-19 03:18:01 · answer #7 · answered by Psych_gal 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ack! thank goodness that as ceased to be legal. im so glad we dont live in a time of lobodomy's and shock therapy too. . eash! can you imagine?
2007-07-19 01:00:51 · answer #8 · answered by Lola S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many things we think are obscenely stupid in hindsight .
2007-07-19 00:49:19 · answer #9 · answered by wizjp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋