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Taboo survivals act dysgenically within the family under present conditions; Conventional education of girls a dysgenic influence;
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934
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Taboo survivals act dysgenically within the family under present conditions.
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934
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This acts dysgenically because it is a stimulus to married people to have large families in inverse proportion to their income, and is felt most by those whose purpose in having children is least approvable.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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Except where the work is peculiarly adapted to women or there is a special individual aptitude, such work will, for the reasons we have set forth, operate dysgenically and therefore bring about the decadence of the race which practices it.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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