ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization reported that 15% of the world’s population
suffers from some form of disability. India has an exponential population of
incapacitated people, having about 1.67 per cent of the population suffering from
disabilities and 35.29 per cent of them being children.
FACTS
In numerous Research Reports, the parents and relatives have had problems with
their child’s disability and further have not been able to accept their kid’s
disability. Therefore, children with disabilities are treated differently in various
places and situations even in public places such as schools or parks. Sometimes
for individuals with a disability, even representations in society become less
active. Due to such hindrances from society, the parents of Disabled children have
not been able to enjoy all the rights and growth opportunities that society has to
offer. Some of those are less education exposure or opportunities in Scholastic
education to the children as in course of the upbringing of the kids the parents
under the immense pressure of finding a medical solution avoid sending their kids
to school. Further kids with disabilities usually have unwanted stress of lack of
empathy and being bullied for their prevalent condition. Even after the tendency
of people to speak of social inclusion for these sets of special children, the kids
face obstacles due to a lack of proper infrastructure and transport, proper roads,
walking and commuting areas, ramps and lifts in buildings. It is imperative to
overlook their special needs and turn them into normalcy and thus avoid paying
heed to them. These obstacles or circumstances cause tremendous stress amongst
children at a tender age affecting their mental health with insecurities and
inferiority complexes. Even mistreatment of these disabled children causes
serious impacts on their mental health at an early age. They are still not accessible
to basic rights like health, education, equal treatment, and social inclusion. In
rural areas of India, such children are treated miserably and face social taboos,
leaving them with prolonged mental illness and religious sacrifices.
PRESENT SCENARIO
In most households in India where there is a disabled child, the mother is the
primary caregiver and anchor to them. Most of the time, the diagnosis that the child
is disabled hits the mother the hardest having relatively more emotional value
towards kids. Along with this the mother also has a responsibility and the need to
perform a delicate act of balance between her ‘normal’ and ‘special’ children. In
such a situation it is natural for a mother to be drawn toward the weaker child and
be more protective.
In the present generation, most of the parents are pushy and rather competitive, but
parents of kids with disabilities have realised this very early on that the marker of
success or failure is not by comparing one kid to another kid or setting up imaginary
targets for them, but the individual progress of a child.
CONCLUSION
In a society driven by perfection, flaws are considered or seen as almost as bad as
failure. The majority of the parents admit that it is very difficult for them to function
or even have basic support in such a circumstance