EXCLUSION AMONGST MUSLIM PARENTS OF MENTALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN IN HYDERABAD
Keywords:
Parents, Mental Retardation, Exclusion, Children, MuslimsAbstract
The proposed paper examines exclusion among Muslim parents of mentally challenged children in Hyderabad. Mental retardation is a serious problem affecting a large number of people. Amongst them the Muslim parents are worse off than average. Although in India Muslims constitute a largest minority but they are poorest of the poor because they are socially, educationally and economically excluded. Social exclusion also applies to some degree to parents of children with a disability, to minority men and women of all races, and to the elderly. Anyone who deviates in any perceived way from the norm of a population can become subject to coarse or subtle forms of social exclusion. Exclusion is the process and situation in which a section of a society is excluded from its general stream with regard to the requirements and necessities of normal life. There could be numerous determinants for this state of affairs the major one being nothing other than poverty. The proposed paper focusses on the excluded Muslim parents, how they are unable to send their children to special schools due to lack of awareness and money. So it can be concluded that if the government adopt some policy for these parents and their children like counselling, providing funds, strengthening preventive health programs, screening all children at a young age, empowering disabled young adults with employable skills, encouraging the private sector to employ people with disabilities. Then these parents would be able to overcome this stressful situation.
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