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Family Involvement VolumeTenlNumbor Fivo 1978 ISSN 1031 9-1443) - ----- Family threat Editorial director by JOHN L. BROWN. FRSH. ACSW, AGPA JOHN L. BROVVN FRSH. ACSW. AGPA Edltor GLORIA SHEPHARD Circulation and production co.ordinator CHRISTOPHER MORDEN Photographs F. ROBERT OPENSHAW FAMILY INVOLVEMENT JOURNAL P.O. Box 936, Station K. Toronto, Ont., Canada M4P 2H2 Family threat by John Brown Paye 1 A birthmother looks at ndoptlon by Stephanie Tay page 12 Early childhood autism by John Carew page 29 Roviews page 4 7 is published by Canodian Educational Programmas and is a member of tho Canadian Periodical Publishers' Association Thero Is a movement currently in voguo in North Amorica - and maybe olsowhorc, but tho movoment in North America is tho one I am most familiar with - to grant childron soparato and legal rights. Tharo hova boon a number of dramatic accounts in the media of children who, with the holp of lawyors. hnvo suod their parents for support, or hava sued adoption agcncios for not having put thom up for adoption, otc. Gonoraily, tho plea is that the child is a soparato baing who has soparoto individual and legal rights and that those soparato rights should bo ostablished in law. In Canada, thcso individual rigtits don't exist for childron or adults, we exist at tho pleasura of tho stato. A child has tho samo rights as any other individual parson has. but thcso rights havo not boon recognized in practice. Children havo always boon treated as though thoy did not hnvo tho samo legal rights accorded other persons and, in consequence of that, childron liava been subioctod to all mannor of cocrcivo rnaasurcs which forcod thom to submit to treatment or placomonts that woro inappropriate, or oven harmful, once thoir own family was taken out of tho picturo. bohaviour, was tho least dosirablo and tho least likoly to hova considoration given to hini wlion peoplo plannod for his caro and treatment. Then it would go on up tt~rough the scalo through nourotic childron. psychotic childron. n~entally rotordod children on up to brain damaged childron. Bocauso if you could identify soma typo of brain damago, it was moro likely that you could establish services tlrat gave tho child more. It was as though the brain damaged child had an "accoptnblo" handicap. It was as though ha and his parents wero absolved from blamn for that handicap and so doserved batter or morn costly sarvicos. For many years, vory littlo was dona for tho mentally retarded child becauso familios wore ashamed of having a mentally retarded cliild and often kept thorn hiddan away at homo. or plocod them in institutions and triad to forgot about them. But as families got organizod, tho ralardod child achicvcd 11 tiighor status in torms of nttcntiot~ and cart! from society - not as a result of pressure Iron1 lawyers, profcssionals in human services or govornnicnt. oithor civil scrvatits or politicians, but as a result of fanlilies demanding moro support and hclp with tho spacial needs ol thoir rotardcd child. Familios organizod, lobbied and demanded that tho rights of rotardod childron bo rocogtiizod. Familios aro just now beginning to gain accoptancu of tho rotardcd chilcl's right to service within his own family. This was a matter of groat concorn to us in our carliar work becauso we roalizod that not only was the child without lcgnl rights in practico, but lie liad vory few liurnan rights. This was, of course, particularly truo of tho cliild who lied been idont~fied as a ~roblom. tho cliild wlio had ;I dilficultv 01 I somu kind. All those chilcfron who woro in arly way deviant were lumped togctlier But always, in our cxpcrienco, the child that tho dolinquent, or acting out cliild wlio child wlio wasn't rticc and obedient, the uxprossed his problem througli disruptive child wlio ilctod as if ha oxpactad sonie VOLUME 10INUMBER 5 1 Contonts copyright @ all rights reserved. If quoting any of this motoriol acknowledge mont must be given to author and Family In- within a graduation of acceptability. So who prnser~tod buhaviour problems. tho volvamont Journal. Permission must be obtainod for reproduction of more than o few scntonccs for roview purposos.
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