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The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence

By Marilyn Brookwood
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By Marilyn Brookwood
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The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who launched the modern science of childhood development.

"Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Their IQ scores, added together, totaled just 81. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs of the times, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligen...

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