Abstract
The future of child wholly and solely depends upon parents their mentality, their behavior, their assets etc. A family with sound economy can make their children sound in all walks of life. But unfortunate thing for an orphan is that he/she lacks this valuable guardian i.e, parents. The children lost the parental support while as thousands of families lost their bread earners. How an orphan can survive smoothly in this expensive and cunning world. So far as orphan of Jammu and Kashmir are concerned, they are in constant strain, anxiety, stress due to the situation of armed conflict from last two decades and Kashmir region in particular has been the most affected. The conflict has led to the loss of human resource and caused infrastructural damage to some of the important institutions. Here the orphan number is far beyond than normal as compared to other states of India. In this paper it is an attempt to showcase the condition, challenges and the position of orphans in Kashmir region. It also mentions the role of government in attempting to reduce the number of orphans and in the rehabilitation of conflict affected victims. Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-2, issue-4: 327-332
Highlights
In Kashmir, the initiation of armed conflict in late 1980’s has witnessed of life
The five orphanages were selected for the purpose of study
Two persons each from orphanage were taken in the study
Summary
In Kashmir, the initiation of armed conflict in late 1980’s has witnessed of life. The every section of society got affected either through the death of bread winner, injury, torture or disappearance. Most families of Kashmir fall within the middle class, the primary bread winner being the professional or skilled labor and it becomes difficult for a family to run livelihood option, if there happens any infirmity to earner. Most of the adults including youth were abused, dishonored and brutally treated. The women being second most victims after children. (Victoria, 2004) In most families here, especially of 18 years, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. The word child has been used in various legislation as a term denoting relationship and term indicating capacity. The word child has been used in various legislation as a term denoting relationship and term indicating capacity. (Dabla, 2010)
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