The 20th Century Eugenics and Its Influence on the Existence, Life, and Education of the People with Disabilities

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The eugenics was accepted by both the great powers in the western countries and the underdeveloped countries early in the 20th century. That is why each nation state that was put on the environment at home and abroad stood in need of eugenics and would aim at racial improvement as solution of its problem. These countries adopted negative eugenics rather than positive eugenics. Eugenic sterilization as principal measures of negative eugenics selected the feeble-minded and the mentally ill as main target to stamp out the socially unfit. But eugenic sterilization for the institutional mental handicapped persons converted to the selective sterilization for the adjustable persons selected from the discharged, because the feeble-minded became to be perceived their social adaptability in the community who had childless family and was allowed their sexuality. In this process both the feeble-minded and their behavior won normalcy in the community life not the institution.It was the supportive elements such as the Protestant and the rising sciences of sociology, psychology and psychiatry and the social requirement to cheap labor that depended upon the acceptance of eugenics in the nation and locality. U. S.A. , Britain, Germany, the northern Europe, some colonies, some undeveloped countries and some states of the U. S. such as California and Virginia had them while France and some states of the U. S. such as Massachusetts and New York had objected to sterilization religiously, legally, and socially.Eugenics has survived in the end of 20th century as the New Eugenics. Its scene was divided into the reproductive technology, prevention of incidence of disabilities and population control in the developing countries and among the social low class.