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The Social Mobility/Fertility Hypothesis Reconsidered: An Empirical Study
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Differential ExposureDisabilityEducationNew YorkSocial StratificationDevelopmental DisabilitiesSocial SciencesPsychologySocial MobilityChildren's LiteratureExceptional ChildrenAbleismCaptain HookDisability StudyDevelopmental DisorderSocial InequalityDemographic ChangeDevelopmental DisabilityEmpirical StudyEarly Childhood DevelopmentRehabilitationChild DevelopmentSociologyDemography
tified with evil. In children's literature, persons with a handicap are frequently shown in an unfavorable light-e.g., Captain Hook, Long John Silver, Pinochio, Rumpelstiltskin, and witches.7 Increasingly in recent years, national health organizations, through the use of poster campaigns and television, have exposed the general public to children with handicaps. In almost all cases, the children portrayed resemble the drawing of the child with crutches and a leg brace (drawing L) and the child in the wheel-chair (drawing W). Although we do not know the effect of this differential exposure to these types of handicapped children, it is interesting to note that these children are ranked higher than the children who have other physical handicaps. 7 A systematic review of the reaction to physical appearance in literature has been made. E. Maisel, Meet a Body, New York: Institute for the Crippled and Disabled, 1953, unpublished manuscript.