The Tasks of Embodied Love: Moral Problems in Caring for Children with Disabilities

Hypatia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger S. Gottlieb
Keyword(s):  
Moral Theory ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Ethics ◽  
Cognitive Support ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Moral Problems

Neither secular moral theory nor religious ethics have had much place for persons in need of constant physical help and cognitive support, nor for those who provide care for them. Writing as the father of a fourteen-year-old daughter with multiple disabilities, I will explore some of moral issues that arise here, both from the point of view of the disabled child and from that of the child's caretaker(s).

scholarly journals Socio-Demographic Factors Influencing the Use of Assistive Technology among Children with Disabilities in Malawi

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3062
Author(s):  
Monica Jamali-Phiri ◽  
Ikenna D. Ebuenyi ◽  
Emma M. Smith ◽  
Juba Alyce Kafumba ◽  
Malcolm MacLachlan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

This paper aims to address the information gap on the influence of socio-demographic factors on access and utilization of Assistive Technology (AT) among children with disabilities in Malawi. Thus, it contributes towards the realization of the recommendations of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities and the development of a framework for creating an effective national AT policy. The paper used two statistically matched datasets, namely, the 2017 survey on Living conditions among persons with disabilities in Malawi and the 2015-16 Malawi Demographic and Health survey. Logistic regression and structural equation modeling techniques were utilized to assess the influence of socio-demographic factors on the use of AT among children with disabilities. The results indicate that there is a high level of unmet need for AT among young children aged 2 to 9 and those living in urban areas. The results further indicate that children with multiple disabilities have lower odds (OR = 0.924) of using AT for personal mobility compared to children with a single functional difficulty. These results entail that AT needs for children with multiple disabilities are not adequately addressed. Therefore, when developing policies on AT, younger children and those with multiple disabilities need to be specifically targeted.

scholarly journals Feeding difficulties in disabled children leads to malnutrition: experience in an Indian slum

2003 ◽  
Vol 90 (6) ◽  
pp. 1097-1106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisha K. Yousafzai ◽  
Suzanne Filteau ◽  
Sheila Wirz
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Nutritional Deficiencies ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Feeding Difficulties ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Feeding Difficulty ◽  
Weight For Age

The aim of the present study was to explore the nature, extent and probable causes of nutritional deficiencies among children with disabilities living in Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, India. A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate whether the nutritional status of children with disabilities, aged 2–6 years (n141), was worse than that of non-disabled sibling controls (n122) and neighbour controls (n162). Data on food patterns, anthropometry, micronutrient status and feeding difficulties reported by parents were collected. The mean weight for age of the children with disabilities (−2·44 (sd 1·39)Zscores;n120) was significantly lower (P<0·05) compared with the sibling (−1·70 (sd 1·20)Zscores;n109) and neighbour (−1·83 (sd 1·290)Zscores;n162) control groups. The children with disabilities had significantly lower (P<0·05) mean haemoglobin levels (92 (sd 23) g/l;n134) compared with siblings (102 (sd 18) g/l;n103) and neighbours (99 (sd 18) g/l;n153). Relative risk (RR) analysis indicated that the disabled children with feeding difficulties were significantly more likely (P<0·05) to be malnourished, by the indicator of weight for age (RR 1·1; 95 % CI 1·08, 1·20) compared with the disabled children without a feeding difficulty. They were also significantly more likely to be malnourished using the indicators of height for age (RR 1·3; 95 % CI 1·19, 1·43) and weight for height (RR 2·4; 95 % CI 1·78, 3·23) compared with the disabled children without a feeding difficulty. Feeding difficulties were identified as a risk factor for vulnerability to inadequate nutritional status among children with disabilities.

SUBSTANTIVE MORAL THEORY

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Pettit
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Moral Thinking ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Moral Thought ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Common

Philosophy can serve two roles in relation to moral thinking: first, to provide a meta-ethical commentary on the nature of moral thought, as the methodology or the philosophy of science provides a commentary on the nature of scientific thought; and second, to build on the common presumptions deployed in people's moral thinking about moral issues, looking for a substantive moral theory that they might support. The present essay addresses the nature of this second role; illustrates it with substantive theories that equate moral obligations respectively with requirements of nature, self-interest, benevolence, reason and justifiability; and outlines a novel competitor in which the focus is shifted to requirements of co-reasoning and respect.

Disability Rights Activism in Kenya, 1959–1964: History from Below

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fikru Negash Gebrekidan
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Rehabilitation Programs ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Historical Agency

Abstract:This article examines the early history of disability rights activism in Kenya. The transitional years from colonialism to independence were a period of great expectations. For persons with disabilities in particular, decolonization held additional possibilities and potential. National independence promised not just majority rule but also an all-inclusive citizenship and the commitment to social justice. Among the visually impaired of Kenya, such collective aspirations led to the birth of the Kenya Union of the Blind in 1959. In 1964, after years of futile correspondence with government officials, the Union organized a street march to the prime minister's office to attract attention to its grievances. The result was a government panel, the Mwendwa Committee for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled, whose published report became the blueprint for social and rehabilitation programs. The government possessed limited resources, and the reforms that ensued were long overdue. Yet the sociohistorical dynamics behind the march are of particular significance. From the social historian's point of view, they affirm not only the historical agency of persons with disabilities, but also the need to recast and broaden the scope of African social history.

scholarly journals A study of the status of access facilities available for children with disabilities studying in BMC school at Mumbai

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
Arun A Banik ◽  
Aninda Duti Banik
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Status ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Visually Handicapped ◽  
Descriptive Survey

The present study title “A study of the status of access facilities available for children with disabilities studying in BMC school”, a descriptive survey designed was made with the aim to study the status of access facility available for the children with disabilities viz. hearing impairment, mental retardation, physically handicapped (Locomotors Disability), visually handicapped in BMC recognized schools. Further to give recommendation in order to promote the access needs for children with disabilities in school. Looking into the prospective of the study it also aim to create an awareness on the issue of barrier free environment for children with disabilities. As a part of tool of the study, self-made questionnaire was developed and validated by a group of professionals. 10 BMC recognized schools were selected in and around Mumbai and the questionnaire was administered by the researcher and taken information from the school principal.Mean average and percentage was calculated from the obtained data. On an average, overall 14.38% schools or centers with disabilities were having access facilities for students with disabilities. With respect to schools or centers related to Locomotors Disabilities, Hearing Disabilities, Mental Retardation, and Visually Handicapped study findings were 14.4%, 14.3%, 13.7% and 15.1% respectively, having access facilities for the children with disabilities in BMC schools. Where the data was subjected to statistical analysis and it was found that there was no significant difference (p&#62;0.05) in terms of access facilities between the schools or centers for disabilities. Results indicated that there were very insufficient as well as inadequate access facilities across all children with disabilities in the BMC recognized schools. The results has shown an impact in the education of the disabled students as they need full accessible educational support to undertake their successful study. Hence, Government and all other educational authorities are suggested to take up this issue in a positive manner to improve the quality of education as there is a much needed access facilities in all the schools.

scholarly journals Attitude to Support the Child's Subjective Position and Posttraumatic Growth in Parents of Children with Disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
A.B. Kholmogorova ◽  
A.I. Sergienko ◽  
A.A. Gerasimova
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth Inventory ◽  
Position Questionnaire

The paper considers the birth of a child with disability as a crisis and traumatic situation for parents. It focuses on the importance of cooperative orientation in the upbringing process, both for the child’s mental health and social adaptation and for overcoming the crisis and making post-traumatic personal growth in the parents possible. We present results of the validation of the ‘Parental Support of the Disabled Child’s Subjective Position’ questionnaire aimed at identifying the parent’s attitude to recognise and support the child’s independence and constructive initiative in various activities and provide him with the necessary assistance in his zone of proximal development. The factor structure was tested on a sample of 201 subjects (mothers of children with mental disabilities) aged 25 to 50 years (average age 39.6 years) by means of confirmatory factor analysis. As a result, a version that included one scale of 12 points was substantiated (Cronbach alpha 0.8). Converged validity was assessed on a sample of 107 subjects (mothers of children with disabilities) using the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory by R. Tedeschi and L. Calhoun in the adaptation by M.Sh. Magomed-Eminova and the World Assumptions Scale by R. Janoff-Bulman in the adaptation of O.A. Kravtsova. A positive relationship was found between the indicators of the ‘Parental Support of the Disabled Child’s Subjective Position’ questionnaire and the indicators of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, as well as with the basic assumptions concerning the benevolence of the world, self worth and the ability to handle emerging problems. It was also revealed that more emotionally stable parents (with low scores on the Beck Depression Inventory) support their child's subjective position more frequently. The findings are illustrated by excerpts from structural interviews with mothers of children with disabilities.

scholarly journals The Multi-Dimensional Influence of a Sports Activity on the Process of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and the Improvement in the Quality of Life of Persons with Physical Disabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Jakub Niedbalski
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sports Activity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Major Subject ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Physically Handicapped

Purpose: The purpose of the research is to analyze the role that sport plays in the lives of persons with physical disabilities within the process of rehabilitation and the improvement of their quality of life.Background: The article raises the notions of changes that take place in the life of a physically handicapped person which is due to their engagement in a sports activity. In the article, I refer to the subjective perspective of those researched, rendering their own point of view into the major subject of analysis.Methods: Qualitative data are exploited in the research, collected through a technique of unstructured interviews and undisguised observations conducted among the disabled practicing sports.Findings: The role of sport practiced by the disabled has been determined within several contexts, which were distinguished within the course of the research as analytical categories.Conclusion: On the basis of the research it was found that getting involved in a sports activity is significant within the process of experiencing life satisfaction, personal development and the reconstruction of the ego, self-identity, and transformations in the manner of perceiving both themselves and others. Therefore, a sports activity of a disabled person supports the rehabilitation process effectively.

The Moribund Moralist: Ethical Lessons in Calvin's Commentary On Joshua

2005 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Blacketer
Keyword(s):  
Wars Of Religion ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
The Law

AbstractCalvin's final commentary, an exposition of the book of Joshua, reflects both Calvin's immersion in and dialogue with the exegctical and theological tradition, as well as his concern with the image and identity of Reformed believers, and especially the Huguenots of France. Prominent in this commentary is Calvin's wrestling with moral issues that arise in the text. Calvin's scrupulous treatment of these moral problems reflects his concern to depict Reformed believers as people who are loyal and obedient to the authorities and to the law, and as people who are truthful and avoid deception and duplicity. It also reflects his concern that his coreligionists actually strive to live up to that image. On occasion Calvin's treatment of these moral issues ends in an unresolved tension — a tension that reflects the moral and political ambiguities that French Reformed believers faced at the beginning of the Wars of Religion in France.

Scientific approaches to the analysis of problems of citizenship and patriotism in modern humanitarian discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
L. Drobizheva-Razumovskaya ◽  
A. Lisenkova ◽  
M. Pismanik
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Practical Conference

The paper analyzes the vectors of development of the strategy of the state national and cultural policy of the Russian Federation in the last decade (2009–2019), presented in the materials of the plenary and sectional reports of the participants of the all-Russian scientific and practical conference “Cultural, religious and moral problems of formation of citizenship” of the Perm state Institute of culture. Since 2009, the Institute has organized twelve all-Russian scientific and practical conferences and round tables with the participation of leading Russian scientists-humanitarians who have made a great contribution to understanding and forecasting possible risks and opening prospects related to topical issues of implementing the national strategy of civil unity and inter-confessional interaction. Every year, based on the results of round tables and plenary sessions, the organizing Committee develops a package of proposals for optimizing and improving the effectiveness of the measures presented in the strategy, which is sent to state authorities and public organizations. This paper presents a wide range of topics that were reflected in the last conference, focusing on the understanding of cultural, religious and moral issues related to the formation of citizenship of Russians.

Utilitarianism

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Torbjörn Tännsjö
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Common Currency ◽  
Exact Number ◽  
Single Scale

Utilitarianism is the idea that we ought to maximize the sum total of happiness. The notion of happiness is clarified. Happiness is taken in a subjective and empirical sense, as a kind of mood. Affirmative answers to the following questions are provided: What is happiness? Can it be measured? Can we compare it between persons? Can it function as a common currency when the different theories of distributive justice are compared? What about the heterogeneity objection? Can very different kinds of happiness be measured on a single scale? In the answers to these questions the idea of a least noticeable difference with respect to happiness plays a crucial role. It is conjectured that, if a person is in a certain mood (momentarily), then there exists an exact number of just noticeable changes for the worse or the better to the point where life is just worth living. Many different conditions can contribute to cause a person to be at the state where she is. A distinction of the utmost importance between physical and subjective time is introduced and a claim is made that what matters, from the point of view of moral theory, is subjective time.

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