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Book: Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
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  1. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    The Princeton ethicist Peter Singer has espoused the right of women to choose abortion through to the end of pregnancy and to commit infanticide on newborns if they so choose. He has defended this position with the utilitarian argument that most women who eliminate an unwanted child will produce a wanted one, and that the loss of happiness of the child who is killed is outweighed by the happiness of the healthy child who follows. 1zAlthough Singer's position is extreme, it reflects the pervasive devaluation of people with Down's syndrome and the assumption that their lives are displeasing to others and themselves.
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  2. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    Unusual bodies have been described throughout history as reflections of sin, as omens from the gods, as the basis for laughter or charity or punishment.
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  3. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    The cochlear implant is really a holding mechanism for a larger debate about assimilation versus alienation, about the extent to which standardizing human populations is a laudable mark of progress and the extent to which it is a poorly white-washed eugenics.
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  4. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    So the question is whether people prefer to be marginal in a mainstream world, or mainstream in a marginal world, and many people quite understandably prefer the latter.
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  5. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    ... the fibrous tongue is actually the strongest muscle per inch in the body; if it were the size of a biceps, you could pick up a car with it.
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  6. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    All people are both the objects and the perpetrators of prejudice. Our understanding of the prejudice directed against us informs our response to others.
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  7. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    Cerebral palsy is any disability caused by damage to the cerebrum before birth, just afterward, or in the first three years of life.
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  8. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    At least three times as many mentally ill people are in jail as are in hospitals.
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  9. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    In the United States, 150,000 people with schizophrenia are homeless; one in five people with schizophrenia is homeless in any given year.
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  10. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    Sometimes, the hallucinations are visual and olfactory was well and make the world full of actual threats into a writhing hell of inescapable terrorization. Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in lonelineness beyond all reckoning… between 5 and 13 percent of people with schizophrenia commit suicide.
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  11. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    People with disabilities make up the largest minority in America; they constitute 15 percent of the population though only 15 percent of those were born with their disability and about a third are over sixty-five…
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  12. Andrew Solomon _ Far from the Tree: Parents,

    At least half of the children available for adoption in the United States have disabilities of some kind.
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