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Babita ¹, Chanderbhan ¹, Sharmila ¹, Mukesh ²

Affiliations
1 Govt. College, Bhiwani, Haryana, IN
2 SIRTER, Rohtak, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Marriage is a commitment with love and responsibility for peace, happiness and development of strong family relationship. A good marriage not only produces a satisfied life but it also generates a sense of well-being. Having a handicapped child born into a family and grow into adulthood is one of the most stressful experiences of family can endure some parents perceive the handicapped infant as an extension of themselves and social rejection, embarrassment. Parental reactions may be affected by economic status and marital stability. The current study was designed to examine Marital Adjustment of 40 disabled and 40 non disabled children's parents. The age range of sample was 25-65 years. The results were analysed by using t-ratios. The result concluded that there will be no difference between disabled or non disabled children's parents on marital adjustment.

Keywords

Marital Adjustment, Disabled/Non-Disabled Children's Parents, Adjustment.

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Mukesh ¹, Kamal Pandey ²

Affiliations
1 Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, IN
2 Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India, IN

Abstract

As a fitting tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary, India has set a target of making all gram panchayats 'Open Defecation Free' by the year 2019 under the 'Swachh Bharat Initiative'. Exclusive information/analysis on use of latrine and various socio-economic factors influencing the use of latrine in rural India is required for having a sound policy framework. In view of this an attempt has been made to study the influence of socio-economic factors like social group, religion, gender of head of households, highest level of education among female and male members of households, family size and occupation of the households on the probability of use of latrine by the households. In this study binary logistic regression technique has been applied on the unit level data of survey on "Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing Condition" in India conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), Government of India, during July, 2012 to December, 2012. The study reveals that the selected socio-economic factors (except gender of head of households) do have a significant impact on the probability of use of latrine of the households in rural India.

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Abhijit Ghosh ¹, Mukesh ²

Affiliations
1 A N Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna 800001, Bihar, IN
2 National Sample Survey office (Coordination and Publication Division), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India; New Delhi 110003, IN

Abstract

This paper attempts to find out the factors that influence the owning of a latrine. For this purpose, unit level NSSO data of 69^th round, collected exclusively to get an idea of this, has been used. On the extracted unit data, Multinomial Logistic Regression Model has been applied. Different sets of socio-economic and governance indicators are chosen as the predictors. Based on the available questions, the type of latrine has been divided into three categories-latrine exclusively use for household. Second one clubs different types of latrines to form as fixed point latrines. The third one is categorised as no latrine. In running MLR, no latrine is considered as reference category. All the predictors, starting from religion, region, location, caste and economic conditions have positive and significant impact on owning a latrine. Therefore, the latrine problem, usually being typed as only traditional and cultural problem, needs to look from holistic angle and it is recommended that while designing public policy all these factors are considered to mitigate the problem.

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