{"title":"A Chance to Adjust.","authors":"Joanna Slaughter","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When a mother learns her baby is mentally handicapped the news comes as a knock-out blow. She, and her family, need time to digest the shock; they also need sympathy and practical help which is not as readily available as it should be.</p>","PeriodicalId":74174,"journal":{"name":"Mental health (London)","volume":"29 Winter","pages":"10-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1970-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/de/d9/menthealthlond71176-0012.PMC5092404.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mental health (London)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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When a mother learns her baby is mentally handicapped the news comes as a knock-out blow. She, and her family, need time to digest the shock; they also need sympathy and practical help which is not as readily available as it should be.