Some move about in society with ease, many are hidden away at home by their family. Others live in institutional settings designed to manage their medical needs as economically as possible. Extending beyond the world's 540 million disabled population are the families affected by disability. A family's daily life can be dramatically altered. Finances are often strained to provide medical care.
Schedules revolve around the disabled member.
Relationships with spouses and siblings are often strained. The manner in which people with disabilities have been treated is a study in contrasts. From a disabled person's perspective, the world's view of disability falls far short of God's perspective. At one extreme, disabled people have been the object of a great deal of abuse and misunderstanding. In Greece, the Spartans systematically destroyed their physically imperfect citizens, while the Athenians permitted their disabled to die of neglect.