{"id":1015,"date":"2018-12-19T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2018-12-19T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:18:11","slug":"1919-henry-goddards-the-kallikak-family-a-study-in-the-heredity-of-feeble-mindedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/1919-henry-goddards-the-kallikak-family-a-study-in-the-heredity-of-feeble-mindedness\/","title":{"rendered":"1919: Henry Goddard&#8217;s &#8220;The Kallikak Family: a Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1016\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1016\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1016\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.11.37-PM-200x300.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=nyp.33433010824211;view=1up;seq=25\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.11.37-PM-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.11.37-PM.png 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front cover of Goddard&#8217;s publication\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=nyp.33433010824211;view=1up;seq=25\">https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=nyp.33433010824211;view=1up;seq=25<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1017\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1017\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1017\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.15.08-PM-207x300.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=nyp.33433010824211;view=1up;seq=25\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.15.08-PM-207x300.png 207w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-4.15.08-PM.png 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs of Deborah &#8220;Kallikak&#8221; in Goddard&#8217;s training school\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=nyp.33433010824211;view=1up;seq=25\">https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=nyp.33433010824211;view=1up;seq=25<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>As discussed above, there was large debate during the 1910s about the right for women with disabilities to reproduce. Henry H. Goddard, a psychologist, did a case study on a family he referred to as the \u201cKallikak\u201d family, specifically focusing on Deborah &#8220;Kallikak&#8221; who was a patient at Goddard\u2019s training school. Goddard\u2019s book contains journal entries, pictures, data, family trees, and his findings from the case study. Goddard used this case study to support his hypothesis that intellectual disabilities, or what he referred to as \u201cfeeble-mindedness\u201d is hereditary. Due to the fact Goddard was a eugenicist, he used his findings to support sterilization and the limitation of the reproduction of women with intellectual disabilities. Goddard\u2019s findings spread widely throughout the nation, helping to grow the popular conceptions and stereotypes about individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed above, there was large debate during the 1910s about the right for women with disabilities to reproduce. Henry H. 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