Forbidden love.

Institutional upbringing for the physically and especially the mentally disabled restricted or banned contact between the sexes. the emergence of teenage style and identity in the 1950s, with its accent on self-display, put especial strain on those who had been brought up to consider themselves excluded by their disabilities from the mainstream of social activities. And many people, institutionalised in childhood, remained there all their lives, never able to widen the scope of their relationships.