Eugenics is the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve on future generations. The selection of the main task of eugenics is to improve the quality of specific properties of certain populations, as well as cultivating the most value to the community features. This may be to improve the health of the nation, or dilution of the gene pool population by introducing new genes into it, which are then carried out by means of inter-ethnic marriages. The science of Eugenics was introduced by Francis Galton, who was a cousin of Darwin. In 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species. His theory of evolution and of Natural Selection focused on plants and animals. Galton found Darwin’s theory very interesting and introduced
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Eugenics negatively aimed towards the reduction of human populations who were mentally ill, disabled and unfit by legal sterilization. In Germany, Eugenics was a contributor in the mass killing and attempted genocide of the Jewish population by Hitler’s Nazis. In fact prior to the Holocaust, the Eugenics movement started in the United States controlled by politicians. It destroyed many people’s lives. In Detroit, a newspaper article told the story of Elaine Riddick who grow up in poverty. Raised by her grandmother, her father had become an alcoholic after World War II, and her mother was in prison for assaulting her father. It is obvious to say Elaine Riddick’s childhood was far from easy. At the age of 14, Riddick was raped by a man from her neighborhood. Afterwards, he threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone. Social Worker deemed Reddick as “feebleminded” and her father signed consent for her sterilization. It was not until after Elaine got married at the age of 18 and tried to conceive a child, that she discovered that she had been sterilized. In 1973, the American Unions Women’s Rights Project filled a federal law suit against the state of North Carolina on behalf of victims of sterilization. Final judgment was due February 2012, and the victims have yet to be
Eugenics negatively aimed towards the reduction of human populations who were mentally ill, disabled and unfit by legal sterilization. In Germany, Eugenics was a contributor in the mass killing and attempted genocide of the Jewish population by Hitler’s Nazis. In fact prior to the Holocaust, the Eugenics movement started in the United States controlled by politicians. It destroyed many people’s lives. In Detroit, a newspaper article told the story of Elaine Riddick who grow up in poverty. Raised by her grandmother, her father had become an alcoholic after World War II, and her mother was in prison for assaulting her father. It is obvious to say Elaine Riddick’s childhood was far from easy. At the age of 14, Riddick was raped by a man from her neighborhood. Afterwards, he threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone. Social Worker deemed Reddick as “feebleminded” and her father signed consent for her sterilization. It was not until after Elaine got married at the age of 18 and tried to conceive a child, that she discovered that she had been sterilized. In 1973, the American Unions Women’s Rights Project filled a federal law suit against the state of North Carolina on behalf of victims of sterilization. Final judgment was due February 2012, and the victims have yet to be