Sioux Falls Feminists endorse Refrigerator Mothers for showing us
the mostly male American medical establishment did the male thing,
they blamed the women. Blaming women is a systemic American
medical establishment problem. They've been doing that
since Freud "proved" that female sexual abuse is mostly
in women's imaginations no matter what the evidence.

Refrigerator Mothers

Refrigerator Mothers (2002) - 60 minutes
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From the 1950's through the early 1970's, the American medical establishment thought it had found the cause of autism: poor mothering. Doctors presumed that the bizarre behaviors of autistic children - rigid rituals, difficulty with speech, extreme self-isolation - stemmed from their mothers' emotional frigidity. We now know that autism is a brain disorder, not the result of poor parenting. But for a whole generation of women, branded as cold 'refrigerator mothers," the damage has already been done.

Refrigerator Mothers

Sioux Falls Feminists endorse Refrigerator Mothers for showing us
the mostly male American medical establishment did the male thing,
they blamed the women. Blaming women is a systemic American
medical establishment problem. They've been doing that
since Freud "proved" that female sexual abuse is mostly
in women's imaginations no matter what the evidence.