CHANAKYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY

Rough draft for partial fulfillment

Of

“LEGAL RESEARCH AND LEGAL METHODOLOGY” course

On

PROBLEMS OF ORPHANS IN INSTITUTIONAL HOMES

SUBMITTED TO:-

Mr. Vijayant sinha

Faculty of legal research and legal methodology

Submitted by:-

Nihal Swaraj Pal

1st year B.A LL.B.(Hons.)

Date of submission:- August

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 1. INTRODUCTION
“ I believe that children and adolescents have always been an important focus of study for
mental health researchers. Studies have highlighted emotional problems such as depressions,
anxiety, and difficulties in social interactions as well as behavioural problems such as
hyperactivity and conduct problems in them.”

I found that among the children too, some groups are more at risk of developing these
psychological problems than the others. Children’s and adolescents who are orphans, runaways,
or abandoned by families and bring reared in institutional homes.

Emotional and behavioural problems are more among orphans and other vulnerable children
because they are exposed to abuse, exploitation, neglect, lack of love and care of parents. They
are also more likely to be emotionally needy, insecure, and poor. In addition to these factors,
most of them are brought up in institutional homes where individual care is inadequate. All these
factors can socially and emotionally impair these children’s.

In india, along with the growing total population of the country, the number of orphans and
abandoned children is also increasing. According to the UNICEF 2018, there are more than 25
million orphan or abandoned and about 44 million destitute children in India. Very few studies
have been done on the psychological health of these children andadolescents leaving a yawning
gap for further in this regard in India.

The purpose of this project is to highlight the various problems of orphans in institutional homes
in India. what is happening and what has happened with various orphans in institutional homes in
India.

1. Objective of the study

1. The researcher wants to study the prevalence and the types of behavioural and
emotional problems in orphans living in institutional homes.
2. The researcher wants to discuss the association between sociodemographic
parameters and behavioural and emotional problems in these children.

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 3. The researcher wants to find the impact of behavioural and emotional problems on
the child’s life.

3. Hypothesis.

1. The Institutinal homes is for welfare for the orphans.

2. Orphans are take care by the authorative in very good manner.
3. They are guided for their better future.

4. Research questions.

1. Situation of orphans in India.

2. factors affecting educational outcomes of orphans child’s.
3. recent case of Muzaffarpur and Deoria shelter home case.

5. LIMITATION OF THE PROJECT

Owing to the large number of topics that could be included in the project, the scope of this
research paper exceedingly vast. However in the interest of brevity and due to certain
restrictions like that of paucity of time etc. the researcher will not be able to deal with the
topic in great detail.

6. REVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE

For the purpose of research the researcher will visit various sites , journals and review
various sources available. Both of primary and secondary nature. Detailed review of
literature will be provided by the researcher in the final draft.

7. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

(i) SOURCES OF DATA

Primary sources- case laws

Secondary sources- Book, websites, journals, articles, magazines etc

8. TENTATIVE CHAPTERISATION

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(i) Introduction

(ii) problems of orphans

(iii) Various surveys about orphans

(iv) Educational outcomes for orphans in India

(v) Cases of Muzaffarpur anjd Deoria

(vi) Conclusion

9. BIBLIOGRAPHY

(i) Journals of UNICEF

(ii) Cases from Newspapers

(iii) Blogs of scholars

(iv) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4830269/

(v)www.google.com/amp/s/www.soschildrensvillages.ca/india-now-home-20-million-
orphans-study-finds%3famp

(vi)www.google.com/amp/s/www.news18.com/amp/news/india/after-bihar-up-
allegations-of-sexual-assault-surface-in-gujarat-orphanage-1841409.htm

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