The Kallikak family : a study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry Herbert Goddard.

Goddard, Henry Herbert, 1866-1957.

Date:: 1912

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girl. They had four children, but all died in infancy. This wife was also the mother of an illegitimate son, who was feeble-minded and sexually immoral. The third child of Millard was Justin (Chart IX, sec- tion E), the grandfather of our Deborah. His family we shall discuss later. According to Mendelian expectation, all of the chil- dren of Millard Kallikak and Althea Haight should have been feeble-minded, because the parents were such. The facts, so far as known, confirm this expectation, with the exception of the fourth child, a daughter, who was taken into a good family and grew up apparently a normal woman. She married a normal man and they had one son who was normal. He married a normal woman and they have two children, a boy and girl, who are normal and above average intelligence. The fifth child was Albert, feeble-minded, who died at twenty-five, unmarried. The sixth child was Warren, who had four children, three of whom were feeble-minded and of very doubtful morality. Each of the three had feeble-minded chil- dren. One of these, Guss by name, was specially loose and much mixed in his marital relations. The seventh child was Lavinia, who died unmarried at the age of thirty-nine. She had been brought up