Discrimination of People with Disabilities Act
Discrimination of People with Disabilities
The history of discrimination against people with disabilities has been very prevalent throughout the years. People with disabilities were understood to be socially and physically isolated from people without disabilities during the colonization years, and many years to come after that. During the settling of the original colonies, people with disabilities could not be cared for and were sent back to England majority of the time. When the colonial towns increased however, houses were built for people with disabilities. Several laws were passed in the United States in order to prevent people with disabilities from marrying and having children. By the late 1930’s, most of the United States had passed sterilization laws. This was part of the eugenics program, developed by Sir Francis Galton, in order to prevent the reproduction and multiplication of members of the population that considered to be carriers of defective genetic traits. This law was prevalent from the late 1930’s, until some time into the 1970’s, where more than 60,000 people with disabilities had been sterilized without their consent. Between 1935, and 1950, there were only a few policies put into place, the social security act, and the social security amendments (Bowman). While all this was taking place, the shift became apparent into the early 50’s . The country had fought a lot of wars, and this affected the shift of people’s recognition of people that had disabilities. For example, after the revolutionary war, congress helped states care for the disabled soldiers. Wars such as the civil war, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War reflected changes in how people with disabilities were viewed. Two major movement’s changed disability policy after WW II, the parent’s movement and the civil rights movement. “Public attitudes began to change when the definition of disability shifted from a medical model/functional limitation model, to a perspective that
The history of discrimination against people with disabilities has been very prevalent throughout the years. People with disabilities were understood to be socially and physically isolated from people without disabilities during the colonization years, and many years to come after that. During the settling of the original colonies, people with disabilities could not be cared for and were sent back to England majority of the time. When the colonial towns increased however, houses were built for people with disabilities. Several laws were passed in the United States in order to prevent people with disabilities from marrying and having children. By the late 1930’s, most of the United States had passed sterilization laws. This was part of the eugenics program, developed by Sir Francis Galton, in order to prevent the reproduction and multiplication of members of the population that considered to be carriers of defective genetic traits. This law was prevalent from the late 1930’s, until some time into the 1970’s, where more than 60,000 people with disabilities had been sterilized without their consent. Between 1935, and 1950, there were only a few policies put into place, the social security act, and the social security amendments (Bowman). While all this was taking place, the shift became apparent into the early 50’s . The country had fought a lot of wars, and this affected the shift of people’s recognition of people that had disabilities. For example, after the revolutionary war, congress helped states care for the disabled soldiers. Wars such as the civil war, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War reflected changes in how people with disabilities were viewed. Two major movement’s changed disability policy after WW II, the parent’s movement and the civil rights movement. “Public attitudes began to change when the definition of disability shifted from a medical model/functional limitation model, to a perspective that