Vulnerable groups are groups of individuals who are in a disadvantaged or risk situation.
To understand what vulnerable groups are, we must first be clear about what the notions of group and vulnerable refer to. A group is a set of individuals, animals or other elements. Vulnerable , for its part, is one or something that is susceptible to suffering some type of impairment or damage, whether moral or physical.
Vulnerable groups , therefore, are groups or communities of people who are in a situation of risk or disadvantage . It is generally considered that the State must assist those who suffer from vulnerability .
Members of vulnerable groups
A vulnerable group may be made up of subjects who, due to their economic situation, their physical condition, their educational level, their gender or their age, need an additional effort to integrate into society and develop . Due to their characteristics or conditions, these human beings may suffer the violation of their rights .
The disabled, immigrants, Aboriginal women, members of sexual minorities, children and the elderly often make up vulnerable groups. Due to multiple circumstances, those who make up these groups must overcome obstacles and difficulties to obtain benefits or achieve objectives that do not cost the rest of the citizens as much.
The elderly constitute one of the vulnerable groups in society.
The importance of equal opportunities
Governments have the obligation to work to achieve equality of opportunity : that is, to ensure that all people have the same opportunities for development. Equal opportunities would allow vulnerable groups to overcome disadvantage and be in the same conditions as the rest of the members of society.
Such equality of opportunities is only possible with social assistance provided by the State . This way vulnerable groups can overcome adversity.
The view on vulnerable groups
No matter how much the media strives - to a greater or lesser extent - to raise awareness of the conditions in which members of vulnerable groups live, no article, no story taken to film can completely effectively convey the normalized suffering of be abnormal Society decides that certain people are not normal and, no matter how much they fight to have their rights recognized, they must live with contempt.
One of the most common errors when investigating and disseminating the situation of vulnerable groups is to focus exclusively on cases of violence in public, in the workplace or at school, since they ignore the origin of the violence. all the behavioral problems of the human being: the home. Upbringing conditions us for better or worse, it gives us the foundations of our morals, it pushes us to become a certain type of person; Although this can lead us on the right path, as we become adults we must always "polish" certain rough edges to form our own personality.
If we are raised to disdain those who do not share our ideas, we will probably cause a lot of harm to our schoolmates and, if we do not change in time, to our future neighbors and colleagues. But the mistreatment we direct at others is not the only problem of a harmful education, but rather the one that we can suffer in the first place. It often happens that homophobic children are homosexual, whether they have discovered it yet or not; Their parents teach them to hate and they put it into practice with their peers, with people who belong to the same vulnerable group.
Therefore, it is important to understand that vulnerable groups originate within the family , and that is where awareness plans should focus to educate parents before they transmit toxic ideas to their children. We do not know if a world without inequality is possible, but this should not stop our fight.