Really long interesting read on School of Social Sciences and - TopicsExpress



          

Really long interesting read on School of Social Sciences and Psychology Stolen Babies - Broken Hearts: Forced Adoption in Australia 1881- interesting the part about Eugenics: RE: Eugenics was well accepted by the Australian elite. Rodwell (1998, pp. 131-156) cites a lengthy article from an Australian paper, Hobart Mercury, published in 1906, which expressed its support for Galtons scheme for improving the white races by ‘breeding from mentally superior people’. It stated this would be achieved by,‘eliminating the worst, by obstructing as far as possible the output of children by the obviously defective in body and mind - feeble-minded people’. 1987nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aja/article/viewFile/3181/3676
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