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| The purported link between feebleminded unwed mothers and their illegitimate children cast a pall over all adoptions, and even popular magazines warned adoptive parents against the risk of 'bad heredity. Any expectation that a 70,000-word document would streamline the existing 97,000 pages of EU regulations is feebleminded. In societies as different as those of Egypt and Malaysia, men's school curricula still stress religion, literature, law and the "old" engineering tracks; women, because they are considered too feebleminded or otherwise vulnerable for such pursuits, have for decades been "shunted" into medicine, business administration and computer technology--imagined by men to be just glorified clerking, since it involves a typewriter keyboard. |
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