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The Child Who Never Grew is Buck’s candid memoir of her relationship with her oldest daughter, who was born with a rare type of mental retardation. A forerunner of its kind, the memoir was published in 1950 and helped demolish the cruel taboos surrounding learning disabilities. Buck describes life with her daughter, Carol, whose special needs led Buck to send her to one of the best schools for disabled children in the United States—which she paid for in part by writing
The Good Earth, her multimillion-selling classic novel.
Brave and touching, The Child Who Never Grew is a heartrending memoir of parenting. As Buck writes, “I learned respect and reverence for every human mind. It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights.”
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Biography, Children with mental disabilities, Family relationships, Mentally handicapped children, Mothers and daughters, Parents of children with disabilities, Training School (Vineland, N.J.), Training School at Vineland (Vineland, N.J.), Gehandicapte kinderen, Mental health, NAMI, handicapped child, Vineland, N. J. Training SchoolPeople
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"Appeared as an article in the Ladies' home journal, May, 1950."
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