Orphan Care
International Journal of Development Research
Orphan Care
Received 17th April, 2018 Received in revised form 27th May, 2018 Accepted 29th June, 2018 Published online 30th July, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Shyamala Naidu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In this article I make an attempt to examine the different causes and types of orphanage and try to seek answers to the problems of and challenges to orphan care caused by our contemporary society. Since today’s orphans are the tomorrow’s adults, the topic has significant importance not only on societal, but on political and economic level as well. The idea of orphan care traces back to the broader idea of human security and tightly connected to the rights of children in general. Children constitute one of the most vulnerable groups of people and in case of orphans, factors of vulnerabilities (being woman or part of a minority, having disability) are often multiple. Researchers found that children living in orphanages are much more exposed to all forms of violence. The basic root of the problem is that the institutions cannot provide the emotional and psychological care that children need; therefore, they are easy target for becoming a street child, being exploited workforce, victims of trafficking or prostitution. En güncel ve yüksek deneme bonusu veren siteler 2023 listesi üzerinden deneme bonusunuzu alın. Bonus veren bahis siteleri için lapalmroyalbeachhotel.com adresimizi ziyaret edin. Apart from the rights provided by the institutional and international background of social and orphan care issues, the personality of the caregiver has particular importance with regard to the assimilation of orphans to the society. An ideal caregiver tries to mitigate the pressure on orphans caused by traditions and social expectations. However, these social impacts may take various forms originating from the specific environment of the domestic culture. The aim is to strengthen the way of communication between children and social workers and to provide the orphans moral and emotional support to build up their own confidence, which is necessary to cope with the life outside the orphanages.