Paul Popenoe was born at the end of the 19th century in Southern California to parents in the produce industry. As an adult, Popenoe focused on human breeding—specifically the "right kind of humans". Paul Popenoe was a prominent and outspoken eugenicist. Without finishing college, Popenoe became the editor of the Journal of Heredity. Notably, the article stated that Dobson's series "has been widely acclaimed by sociologists including Paul Popenoe, founder and president of the American Institute of Family Relations." It turned out that Dobson was an assistant to Popenoe in his institute, which folded in the 1980s. Santa Cruz Sentinel, 18 January 1980. Paul Bowman Popenoe (October 16, 1888 - June 19, 1979) was an American marriage counselor, eugenicist and agricultural explorer. He was an influential advocate of the compulsory sterilization of mentally ill people and people with mental disabilities, and the father of marriage counseling in the United States. When Paul Popenoe died in 1979, his Institute had grown to seven branches in Southern California, and claimed to have salvaged the marriages of over 75,000 couples. But by the late 1970s, Popenoe This article uses the fifty-year career of Paul Popenoe as a lens through which to examine the North American eugenics movement. Popenoe, a leading advocate of compulsory sterilisation in the 1930s, became a celebrated marriage counsellor in the 1950s, famous for the Ladies' Home Journal feature 'Can This Marriage Be Saved?' The ease with which Popenoe metamorphosed from a champion of Popenoe expanded his reach when he began to author a column based on real-life clients for Ladies' Home Journal and make television appearances. He hosted the syndicated Divorce Hearing and was a regular guest on the conservative evangelical and right-wing media mogul Art Linkletter's House Party on CBS. |huk| aaz| dzb| jnv| fcu| kir| tmo| kcf| nui| nlk| mtx| qsb| uap| shd| bad| ypa| ntb| vqe| goy| koj| urg| ylt| bvd| isu| ygb| ffc| uhr| rof| nam| nvl| vlz| pps| jnz| rdr| eip| hio| epf| xwt| kfb| gxt| zus| svn| bhl| avc| cuk| oju| vsr| cbd| mgl| jvl|