10 Year Study to Find Out How We Develop

10 Year Study to Find Out How We Develop

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Vacancies, Screen Time, Eugenics, Mongolian Music

Episode: Vacancies, Screen Time, Eugenics, Mongolian Music

  • Feb 13, 2019 11:00 pm
  • 11:56 mins

Guest: Kara Bagot, MD, Study Co-Investigator As a parent, you may be worried about how things like screen time, substance use, and sports could affect your child’s brain. Right now, we don’t have solid answers to those questions. But hundreds of researchers are embarking on the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the US to find out. It’s called ABCD or the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study and is funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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Fit to Parent: Have We Learned the Lessons of America's Eugenic History?

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Guest: Paul Lombardo, Regents' Professor and Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law, Georgia State University In the early 1900s, it was legal for people in America to be sterilized against their will –the Supreme Court even said so. After the Nazi horrors came to light most states stopped enforcing their eugenics laws. Even so, there were people into the 1970s who were being forced into sterilization because they were poor, black, disabled, in prison or just deemed unfit to parent. We hope that’s all in the past, right? But have you ever thought to yourself, “that person really shouldn’t be allowed to have kids”? Parents with intellectual disabilities in America, for example, have their children removed by the state up to 80 percent of the time, according to the National Council on Disability. Have we fully learned the lessons of our dark history with eugenics?

Guest: Paul Lombardo, Regents' Professor and Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law, Georgia State University In the early 1900s, it was legal for people in America to be sterilized against their will –the Supreme Court even said so. After the Nazi horrors came to light most states stopped enforcing their eugenics laws. Even so, there were people into the 1970s who were being forced into sterilization because they were poor, black, disabled, in prison or just deemed unfit to parent. We hope that’s all in the past, right? But have you ever thought to yourself, “that person really shouldn’t be allowed to have kids”? Parents with intellectual disabilities in America, for example, have their children removed by the state up to 80 percent of the time, according to the National Council on Disability. Have we fully learned the lessons of our dark history with eugenics?