ممارسات واتجاهات - المجتمع السوداني نحو الطفل غير معلوم الوالدين (الطبيعي) في ضوء المعايير العالمية

This research is intended to investigate the attitude and behavior of the Sudanese society towards the abandoned child within the context of international norms.\r\nThe field of this study, is the Sudanese society with its political-boundaries, therefore, the society classified into five distinctive cultural zones:\r\nThe Northern zone covers the Nile area north of the capital Khartoum, which comprises tribes such as Jaaliin, Shaigiya and the Rubatab, together with the Jaevera tribes of central Sudan.\r\nThe Western zone in western part of the country includes tribes such as Misseriya, Zaghawa, Baggara, Fur, and the Nuba mountains tribes.\r\nThe Southern zone of the Nilotic covers the tribes of Dinka, Nuer, Shuluk, Anuak and others.\r\nThe Eastern zone of the eastern tribes of Bija group, Amarar, Bishareen etc.\r\nThe Urban zone covers the urban societies who live in cities and towns allover the country.\r\nTo investigate the grouping within these zones through scientific tools, random samples were selected from each zone. A scale measure of attitude was designed and tested. Finally field work was conducted to measure the attitudes and behaviors.\r\nThe study came out with the following findings:\r\n\r\nThe attitude and behavior of the Northern and central zone has reflected the negative attitude towards the abandoned child since the less the behaviors towards it has shown hesitant and undetermined.\r\nThe Western zone however showed neutral attitude with its positive behavior as far as the Castern zone is concerned both attitude and behavior has reflected some negative response.\r\nContrary to others the Southern zone has shown positive in both attitude and behavior.\r\nThe Urban zone shown similar response to that 2nd Northern zone with slight tendency of neutralism and uncertain in both attitude and behavior towards such a child.\r\nThe research has therefore reflected a clear diversity in the attitude and behavior within the Sudanese societies of different cultural zones towards the abandoned child, which clearly suggests varieties of means in handling the issue.