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This is CBS I on the world.

Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome the author Marilyn Brookwa. The new book is The Orphans of Davenport.

This is the story of eugenics, The Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence.

Here in the 21st century, it is common sensible that a

loving family is critical to the development of a child to adulthood.

Marilyn Brookwood is a psychologist. She's worked in public education and IJAC faculty position at the

College of New Rochelle. Writing this book from the documents assembled over the last hundred years from heroic work at the University

of Iowa.

We begin with one of those heroes at the University of Iowa in the 1930s during the depths of

the Depression. Iowa went from being the fourth

wealthiest state to poverty as all farming prices collapsed with the dislocation of the weather, the climate, and worldwide affairs.

In Chicago at the American Association on Mental Deficiency, 1939, a man takes to the podium in the fourth day, it's unseasonably hot. This is

Maryland's reporting. His name is Harold Skeels. He's a professor, he's a doctor,

he's a psychologist.

Marilyn, congratulations and a very good evening to you.

Who has Harold Skeels that day?

What is he presenting and what opposition does he face.

Good day to you.

Thank you and my appreciation for your interest in my book.

So Harold was a conventionally trained animal, expert in animal husbandry when for reasons we don't understand,

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