There is a terrible history in the US regarding sterilization of 
disabled and others seen as non desirables. Children born into 
polygamy cults are routinely used as child slave labor today and 
there is barely a peep out of human rights groups regarding this. 
There are as many as 50,000 American children trapped this way. Still 
when you come across this sort of thing, it is an ugly reminder of 
how brutal we are to each other. I must be more gentle in the New 
Year. It is not one of my strengths unfortunately.

At 10:05 AM 12/29/2006, you wrote:
>Kat, that doesn't surprise me.  The U.S. sterilized pwd's and other
>marginalized members of society in the 1920's and '30's.  This was
>indirectly responsible for the "Little Holocaust" of Nazi Germany in which
>more than 500,000 pwd's were killed before the big one of 6 million Jews.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Kathleen Salkin
>Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:30 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Shocking Revelation
>
>Now, some of you Aussies (or WWII history buffs) might have known of
>this sort of thing:
>
>http://www.answers.com/topic/f-gwynplaine-macintyre
>
>But I must admit this is the first I have ever heard of such a thing
>- child slave labor in Australia after the war!  True, this poor
>man's family took his name, his birthright and his freedom away from
>him because he was disabled but this is sadly all too common in third
>world countries.  I cannot conceive of a  forward-thinking country
>like Australia utilising child slave labour, especially in the 20th
>Century.  I find it just as inconceivable that a British family
>should allow such a thing to happen to their child when government
>assistance was available. (Or was it back then, in 1954, Deri?)
>
>Any comments on this from the Australians on this list?
>
>The irony of the whole thing is, his family tried to reconcile with
>him, only to have him find out that they only wanted a kidney for his
>non-disabled fraternal twin brother.  What selfish creatures!
>
>Kat
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