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The Kallikak Family. Introduction ( back to outline) The American psychologist Henry H. Goddard (1866-1957) is best known for his work on the area of the inheritability of intelligence. He was influenced by Mendelian genetics, and believed that “feeble-mindedness” was the result of a single recessive gene. He is considered by many to be one ...
The real story of the disfavored Kallikaks, the ‘other Wolvertons,’ is not free of troubles and human frailties. The family had its share of skeletons in the closet, but so did many families of that era, particularly those who were faced with poverty, lack of education and scarce resources for dealing with tumultuous social change.
According to psychology historian David Hothersall, Goddard discovered that the inferior branch of Martin Kallikak's family included "46 normal people, 143 who were definitely feebleminded, 36 illegitimate births, 33 sexually immoral people, 3 epileptics, and 24 alcoholics. These people were horse thieves, paupers, convicts, prostitutes ...
David Huddleston stars as conniving coal miner who moves his large family from the Appalachians to the good
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Spurred by the same fears, prejudices and societal issues that were driving the progressive movement in general, the eugenics movement in the U.S. focused on identifying, sequestering and even sterilizing people who were deemed to be "unfit."
Kallikak. Kallikak may refer to: The Kallikak Family, a 1912 book (fully entitled The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness) by the American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard. The Kallikaks, an American television series that aired in 1977.
