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Maherali, Zuleikha – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1989
The paper examines the rights of mentally handicapped people to marry and to bear and raise children. It discusses United States and Canadian societal attitudes, laws, and constitutional issues in terms of the incapacity of mentally handicapped individuals to contract to marry, sterilization as a condition to marriage, and the concept of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Child Rearing, Civil Rights
Miller, Brent C.; And Others – 1981
This paper reports on a study of teenage sexual activity and pregnancy in Utah, conducted to understand ways of dealing with the State's rising adolescent fertility rate. The paper identifies social and cultural characteristics which distinguish sexually active youth from their abstinent peers. Related research is reviewed and methodology is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dating (Social), Early Parenthood, Family Relationship