Kallikak Family Caricature
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 ''The Kallikaks'' is an American sitcom television series starring David Huddleston which centers around a family from Appalachia that moves to California to run a decrepit gasoline station. The show aired from August 3 to August 31, 1977 on NB ...

The Kallikak Family
''The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness'' was a 1912 book by the American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, dedicated to his patron Samuel Simeon Fels. Supposedly an extended case study of Goddard’s for the inheritance of "feeble-mindedness", a general category referring to a variety of mental disabilities including intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mental illness, the book is noted for factual inaccuracies that render its conclusions invalid. Goddard believed that a variety of mental traits were hereditary and that society should limit reproduction by people possessing these traits. The name Kallikak is a pseudonym used as a family name throughout the book. Goddard coined the name from the Greek words καλός (''kallos'') meaning good and κακός (''kakos'') meaning bad. Summary The book begins by discussing the case of "Deborah Kallikak" (real name Emma Wolverton, 1889–1978),J. David Smith and Michael L. ...
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