Sunday, February 2, 2014

Hot Off the Press

Iowa City Press Citizen, February 2, 2014:

Heather Young was 7 when the state of Oregon removed her from her parents’ care and placed her into foster care.

Young, now 46, said in 1973, she and her developmentally-disabled brother, Ezra — whose name was later changed to Rex — were taken from her mentally ill parents after a state psychiatrist found them unfit for parenting. Ralph Wade, who is developmentally challenged, and Claudia, who suffers from schizophrenia, didn’t realize they were the newest test subjects in a state experiment nicknamed “The Oregon Project,” or “The Termination Project.”


To read the rest of the article, and to see a video interview:

A Family Ripped Apart

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