Eugenics Research

Eugenics has been researched and thought about for years. The thought of creating the perfect child has been around for decades! Eugenics originally started around the WWII era. Charles Darwin was actually the first man that realized that in society rich people should be having more healthy children and bigger families. However, in this era, that was not the case. Scientists that wanted to explore the gene pools were called eugenicists.  Eugenicists wanted to find out the cause of sickness in the poor population and how they could possibly change the amount of diseases babies had by experimenting with gene pools. Eugenecisits thought that by doing this, they could prevent poverty, feeble-mindedness-including manic depression, schizophrenia, alcoholism, rebelliousness, criminality, nomadness, and prostitution. This was surely thought of as degenerative to the human gene pool by people that didn't quite understand the whole situation and what these scientists were trying to do. If we have the chance to save a baby's life, wouldn't they potentially try to do this? Yes, tweaking the genetics a little bit are somewhat like "playing God" but if we can help someone for the better I think it would be worth the risk.
     There were some great and fearless leaders who frequently read up on eugenics and studied and tried to understand the whole concept. In fact, Adolf Hitler read on Eugenics and believe it or not, the blonde haired-blue eyed men that people thought were to be Nazi's were actually somewhat created about two decades before Hitler even took power! When it came to Eugenics, America was the main founder of this power. But, it was Germany that really accelled and rapidly tried to find new cures. In Germany people were being taken from their homes, and mental institutions, etc. and were being treated. The sterilization numbers were climbing to as many as 5,000 treatments per month!
     As you can see, Eugenecists were right about having the power to scientifically evaluate the gene pool and locate the problem with the baby and be able to fix this problem. The numbers of treatments and sterilizations increased by unthinkable numbers! This data collection below is actually a few years old too, so you can imagine the amounts of treatments now!
                                         

Number of Sterilized From each Condition







• Hereditary-Feeble-Mindedness-200,000
• Schizophrenia- 80,000
• Epilepsy-60,000
• Manic-depressive-Psychosis-20,000
• Serious Physical Deformities- 20,000
• Hereditary Deafness- 20,000
• Hereditary Alcoholism-10,000
• Hereditary blindness- 4,000
• Huntington's Chorea-600
• Total- 410,600

Sources:
https://people.creighton.edu/~idc24708/Genes/Eugenics/History%20of%20Eugenics.htm
http://www.emmerich1.com/EUGENICS.htm
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/