Parents' Reasons for Institutionalizing Severely Mentally Retarded Children

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Reasons parents give for institutionalizing retarded children are examined to discover major and minor reasons, and factors related to early-late placement with subsequent low-high parental interest. These reasons suggest that well-educated families placing younger children and demonstrating low interest are companionship families because the child is placed so the mother may divide her attention more or less equally among her normal children. Parents placing older children and demonstrating high interest are primarily concerned with the retarded child''s future. They are viewed as institutional families because the age-grading criteria determining the maternal division of labor does not require early placement.

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