All parents hope to have normal and happy children.
Children they can be proud of. It is natural that parents are greatly distressed when they learn that their child is in some way handicapped. The Initial Trauma Shock, anger, guilt, and self-pity are among the first feelings that parents of a handicapped child experience. All these feelings are valid. Indian mothers of handicapped children reflect on the irony of the situation where thousands of women in rural areas and homeless on footpaths, without having access to the basic healthcare, are able to deliver normal babies.