‘Parents in name only’
September 29th, 2008
The Vancouver Sun documents the case of 27-year-old Barbara Gamble, a woman whose five children have been taken away from her by the state. She is now expecting her sixth. Gamble (left, with partner Vince Kinney) has been deemed by social workers and the courts as an unfit mother. She has an intellectual disability and has never held a job. An exerpt:
She is considered unfit to parent primarily because she isn’t as smart as everyone else and there aren’t enough support services to bridge the gap.
Barbara scores between 63 and 71 on the standard IQ test, “mildly mentally handicapped” as they put it in the reports.
… Canada stopped sterilizing handicapped women four decades ago, but lawyer Mark Hargrave says the government has effectively achieved the same goal by seizing Barbara’s children at birth.
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