KANSAS BUREAU OF CHILD RESEARCH

Slogan of State Eugenics Movement to have “desirable” parents have more children and “undesirable” potential parents to be sterilized and prevented from having children – especially racially mixed couples as then defined. The eugenics enthusiasts got embedded in American culture although their understanding of genetics and heredity was totally wrong and unscientific. 60,000 Americans were strerilized against their will between 1923 and 1981

Slogan of State Eugenics Movement to have “desirable” parents have more children and “undesirable” potential parents to be sterilized and prevented from having children – especially racially mixed couples as then defined. The eugenics enthusiasts got embedded in American culture although their understanding of genetics and heredity was totally wrong and unscientific. 60,000 Americans were strerilized against their will between 1923 and 1981