#12316. Willingness of youth without disabilities to have romantic love and marital relationships with persons with disabilities

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Many young people without disabilities may doubt that people with disabilities can be fulfilling partners in any loving adult relationship. The objective of the research was to assess the willingness of non-disabled youth to engage in conjugal relationships with persons with disabilities. A self-administered questionnaire was designed and distributed to randomly selected unmarried youth. The result showed that most (85.5%) of the young people without disabilities who participated in the survey were not willing to have any type of personal relationships with persons with disabilities and the main reason for 44.2% of these respondents was the fear of reaction from family members. It was found that the willingness of youth without disabilities to engage in romantic love and marital relationships was not influenced by the socio-economic status of people with disabilities. The binary logistic regression analysis showed that the willingness of respondents to have a marital and romantic relationship with persons with disabilities is significantly associated with the sex, age, and presence of a person with disability in their family. The research demonstrates that people with disabilities have continued to face stereotypes and discrimination. Such stereotypes extend to assuming them as asexual and unfit to carry out roles that arise from love or marital relationships which violates the rights of PWDs to form their own family and have children. It is important to raise the awareness of young people about the differences between disability and sexuality and that physical disability has nothing to do with sexuality and relationship formation.
Keywords:
Disability; Relationship; Sexuality; Stereotype; Youth without disability

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