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I don\\\'t know how \\\"common\\\" it was. What I remember are numerous P.S.A.s for various charities, showing kids with birth defects. Some kids at my school had birthmarks, cleft palate, spinal bifida, hydrocephalus -- it was accepted as just the way that person was.
The \\\"put them away and pretend they died\\\" attitude seems more 1940s than 1950s. Marie Killilea wrote in her book \\\'\\\'Karen\\\'\\\' that she was told to do this by more than one doctor who saw her severely CP daughter in the early \\\'40s, which was how she ended up founding the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation.
The \\\"put them away and pretend they died\\\" attitude seems more 1940s than 1950s. Marie Killilea wrote in her book \\\'\\\'Karen\\\'\\\' that she was told to do this by more than one doctor who saw her severely CP daughter in the early \\\'40s, which was how she ended up founding the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation.
