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Reading the book "Crazy". Making me think...
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 192231" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>There are SO MANY factors. BUT when the mentally ill were put in institutions very few of them had children. In fact there was a push in SOME institutions to authorize surgical sterilization for anyone who showed a sex drive. This did not happen in ALL of them, but I know it came up for a relative on my dad's side of the family tree. Oneof the cousin's cousin's kind of relative. I just remember how the adults in the family all were staunchly opposed to it (Catholic family - this was against the Bible and the Vatican according to their beliefs) and the institution said they would NOT be ehld responsible if anyone got pregnant. </p><p></p><p>I was NOT supposed to hear this conversation, but as a child I found the other kids FAR less interesting that hanging around the edges of the adults and listening to all the stuff they were talking about. (My cousins were usually playing some sport, and I really did not find that interesting. I was a very odd child.)</p><p> </p><p>So now the mentally ill have more opportunity to have kids compared to when they were institutionalized. So that is ONE factor that contributes to mental illness increasing, but it is FAR from being the ONLY factor. There are SOOOO many things that contribute, we will never be able to isolate just one cause. At least that is MY opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 192231, member: 1233"] There are SO MANY factors. BUT when the mentally ill were put in institutions very few of them had children. In fact there was a push in SOME institutions to authorize surgical sterilization for anyone who showed a sex drive. This did not happen in ALL of them, but I know it came up for a relative on my dad's side of the family tree. Oneof the cousin's cousin's kind of relative. I just remember how the adults in the family all were staunchly opposed to it (Catholic family - this was against the Bible and the Vatican according to their beliefs) and the institution said they would NOT be ehld responsible if anyone got pregnant. I was NOT supposed to hear this conversation, but as a child I found the other kids FAR less interesting that hanging around the edges of the adults and listening to all the stuff they were talking about. (My cousins were usually playing some sport, and I really did not find that interesting. I was a very odd child.) So now the mentally ill have more opportunity to have kids compared to when they were institutionalized. So that is ONE factor that contributes to mental illness increasing, but it is FAR from being the ONLY factor. There are SOOOO many things that contribute, we will never be able to isolate just one cause. At least that is MY opinion. [/QUOTE]
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