Parental Rights and the Habilitation Decision for Mentally Retarded Children

The Effectiveness of Family Life Education in Reducing parental stress of Mothers Mentally Retarded Children

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Reproductive rights of mentally retarded persons.

Mental retardation denotes sub-average intellectual functioning, based on IQ, i.e. the inability of normal learning, accompanied by behavioral and developmental disorders. Persons with impairments (cognitive, motor, sensory or psychiatric) have often been, both through human history and today victims of discrimination and deprived of their basic human rights, both in the public and the private ...

Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons.

Recalling the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the standards already set for social progress in the constitutions, conventions, recommendations and resolutions of the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World...

Sterilization of mentally retarded persons: reproductive rights and family privacy.

Sterilization is one of the most frequently chosen forms of contraception in the world;1 many persons who do not want to have children select this simple, safe, and effective means of avoiding unwanted pregnancy. For individuals who are mentally disabled, however, sterilization has more ominous associations. Until recently, involuntary sterilization was used as a weapon of the state in the war ...

Comparative parental perceptions of a mentally retarded child.