Introduction
People with disabilities are an essential and valuable part of society, and they are a highly important minority group. However, there is a certain number of instances when caregivers of people with disabilities infringe and murder them. Such cases are becoming more and more apparent and prevalent due to the slow and gradual increase of attention to the issue. Therefore, it is important to illuminate the occurrences to raise the overall awareness and hold caregivers responsible.
Social Protection
Social protection and support for people with disabilities are some of the components of the state socio-economic program to improve the welfare of the population. Disability is one of the most acute social phenomena that no society can avoid. Each state, by its level of development, priorities, and opportunities, forms a social and economic policy to protect the rights and interests of persons with disabilities. A person with disabilities is a person with a persistent disorder of body functions caused by a disease, trauma, or congenital deficiency of mental or physical development, causing a limitation of its normal life and the need for additional social assistance and protection.
The Murder of people with disabilities does not get the needed attention and coverage because there is not sufficient awareness of the issue. It is stated that from 2011 to 2015, 219 people were murdered by their caregivers, which means that statistically, it occurs almost every week (Perry, 2017). Currently, the assistance system for people with disabilities and their families is reoriented to take into account the individual needs of people, thereby updating the approach to organizing a social service system, taking into account the wide variety of aspects of the problem of limited opportunities.
The changes in social assistance programs for people with disabilities and their families suggest a shift in the focus of activity from segregation to social inclusion, which increases the role of the family in the processes of rehabilitation and integration. The study of the situation of the family of a person with disabilities in the social structure of society and the possibilities of social mobility is a special section of the disability problem. For example, such occurrences can be observed during controversial events of promoting death among people with disabilities (Braye, 2017). Before revealing the essence of social and legal protection and support at the present stage, it is necessary to consider centuries-old traditions, that is, what preceded current social and legal legislation.
Sociocultural Context
Several sociocultural traditions can be noted in the interconnectedness of the phenomenon of disability, society, and the family. Among them, the tradition of disability analysis in terms of social security and social assistance stands out. This tradition has evolved from its rudimentary elements in human groups, genera, and communities to the generally accepted system of social and legal protection. The tradition of turning to the life experience of people with disabilities themselves from the widespread legalized killing of a person with disabilities, the use of their inferiority for survival and adaptation, to the experience of comprehending universal values ​​through constant struggle and overcoming their illnesses.
In the sociology of an interactionist approach, one can single out the tradition of uniting the internal forces of the family or caregivers to support their person with disabilities. When there is no systemic relationship between the state, family, and the individual, there is no unity and cohesion in society (Spaulding & Pratt, 2017). It is important to pay particular attention to this relationship because sociocultural vacuums are becoming more and more distinct between family and society.
A tradition is highly widespread in which the position of the disabled family in the social structure of society is characterized by social vulnerability, which is recorded by low indicators of education, employment, and income. Due to segregation, many disabled people from childhood adapt to a special environment, which impedes their social integration in the field of education, the labor market, and public life in general (Stone, 2017).
In the modern socio-cultural environment, disability is one of the characteristics of a person’s position in the social structure of society, acting as the basis of social differentiation, and is a status associated with a set of certain privileges legitimized by the state’s social policy and society’s culture. However, these privileges do not always compensate for the disadvantages in the social position of the person with disabilities. Therefore, this problem is associated with the tradition of the status dynamism of disability.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is important to note that the murder of people with disabilities by their caregivers is a highly delicate problem, which needs more attention. The process of establishing the social and legal protection of people with disabilities in the world is a long-term phenomenon. The emerging paradigm of helping and supporting needy families with a disability is a complex set of historical, social forms of protection and teachings, traditions and customs, laws, and individual irrational actions and actions.
However, in this complex interweaving of practice and knowledge, it is possible to single out those most important dominants that allow social assistance to take shape in a civilizational space in the special sphere of humanity. The difficulties of a family with a person with disabilities encountered in social practice are most often considered through the prism of the problems of the person with. The presence of such an individual violates the whole course of the life of the family, gives rise to numerous social, socio-psychological, socio-legal, medico-social, and social problems.
References
Braye, S. (2017). “You shall not murder”: Atos at the paralympic games. Journal of Disability & Religion, 21(2), 215-229.
Perry, D. M. (2017). Disabled Americans: Stop murdering us. Pacific Standard. Web.
Stone, A. (2017). Lunacy and liberation: Black crime, disability, and the production and eradication of the early national enemy. Early American Literature, 52(1), 109-140.
Spaulding, L. S., & Pratt, S. M. (2017). A review and analysis of the history of special education and disability advocacy in the United States. American Educational History Journal, 42(1), 91-109.