Kallikak

This family has been traced back to the War of the Revolution, when a young soldier named Martin Kallikak seduced a feeble-minded girl.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Scopes Trial Atmosphere?– 2004

One of the most notorious of these clans was the so-called Kallikak family.

Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

Another family called the Kallikak family, which has been made the subject of investigation, is a still better example of heredity.

Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe

Another case recently studied is the "Kallikak" family.

Tangipahoa 2006

In many cases, however, in our own country doubtless the great majority, the father concerned has an illicit connection with some girl quite outside his own social circle and later, as in the famous "Kallikak" case, marries a woman of his own class and has a family of recognized children.

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

In 1912, Goddard published a detailed account of the clan, The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness.

Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

The members of the Kallikak family “are wayward, they get into all sorts of troubles and difficulties, sexually and otherwise, and yet we have been accustomed to account for their defects on the basis of viciousness, environment, or ignorance.”

Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

The story of the Kallikak family was used as an argument for the segregation, the sterilization, and even the extermination of such people; in translation, the book was popular reading among members of the Nazi party in Germany.

Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

The book became a bestseller, and the Kallikak family became infamous, cited in textbooks and encyclopedias as a cautionary tale about unchecked reproduction among the unfit.

Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

True, the Nov. 11 NY Times said that in the Appalachian Kallikak Belt, more white voters went for McCain than they had for Bush; but elsewhere in the Republic an awful lot of wonder bread folks felt a joy verging on euphoria -- a deep emotional recognition of what an African American family in the White House signifies for all of us.

What's with All the Happiness? 2008