This family has been traced back to the War of the Revolution, when a young soldier named Martin Kallikak seduced a feeble-minded girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Scopes Trial Atmosphere?–] Reference
One of the most notorious of these clans was the so-called Kallikak family. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
Another family called the Kallikak family, which has been made the subject of investigation, is a still better example of heredity. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
(Footnote: The name Kallikak is fictitious.). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Scopes Trial Atmosphere?–] Reference
Another case recently studied is the "Kallikak" family. From Wordnik.com. [Tangipahoa] Reference
In many cases, however, in our own country doubtless the great majority, the father concerned has an illicit connection with some girl quite outside his own social circle and later, as in the famous "Kallikak" case, marries a woman of his own class and has a family of recognized children. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
Footnote: The name Kallikak is fictitious. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Scopes Trial Atmosphere?–] Reference
Another case recently studied is the “Kallikak” family. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Scopes Trial Atmosphere?–] Reference
Mr. Brodie immediately followed the immensely popular "Kallikak Family" serial drama, an added advantage audience-wise. From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
In 1912, Goddard published a detailed account of the clan, The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
Studies of the "Jukes" family and the "Kallikak" family, and others, show convincingly the spread of these defects where defectives marry. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
It happened that the ancestor of the Kallikak family, after he had sown his wild oats, married well and had about five hundred descendants. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The book became a bestseller, and the Kallikak family became infamous, cited in textbooks and encyclopedias as a cautionary tale about unchecked reproduction among the unfit. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
The history of the Kallikak family has been traced and fully described in detail by Dr. Goddard, and his study shows the hereditary nature and sociological bearings of feeble-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health] Reference
The story of the Kallikak family was used as an argument for the segregation, the sterilization, and even the extermination of such people; in translation, the book was popular reading among members of the Nazi party in Germany. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
The members of the Kallikak family “are wayward, they get into all sorts of troubles and difficulties, sexually and otherwise, and yet we have been accustomed to account for their defects on the basis of viciousness, environment, or ignorance.”. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
Kallikak married a respectable girl of good family. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
I have finished the Kallikak family and I am bursting with talk. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
If you are really hurt, I will read the Kallikak book; but I must tell you that you are working me to death. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
H.w heredity works both ways, is shown by the history of the Kallikak family, published by H.H. Goddard a few years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
A case study by Henry H. Goddard Kallikak family "in the People's Republic of the beginning of 1900" is the prospect, even if later, researchers have suggested that the Kallikak almost certainly had FAS. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Kallikak family, 173–75. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
… but that won’t stop you from writing like an illiterate Kallikak. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » “Get it out.”] Reference
174 Goddard published a detailed account of the clan: Henry Herbert Goddard, The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness New York: Macmillan, 1912. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
175 Karp’s analysis of the records and photographs he found in the Vineland files: Robert J. Karp and others, “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at the Turn of the 20th Century: An Unexpected Explanation of the Kallikak Family,” Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 1995, vol. 149, no. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
I've diagnosed her case; she's a Kallikak. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
Kallikak Family?. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
Kallikak family, 9. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
Kallikak family, 45. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
H.H. Goddard, The Kallikak. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Kallikak, Pauline, 175. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
Kallikak Family, The Goddard, 174. From Wordnik.com. [Origins] Reference
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