123. The State party has had challenges insofar as family attitudes towards children with disabilities are concerned. Family attitudes have not been favourable to children with disabilities. Some communities within the State party look upon a disabled child as a curse or a punishment from God. Others believe it is as a result of parents engaging in witchcraft. Therefore, from a false sense of shame or embarrassment, many parents do not divulge information on their disabled children; as a result, their children’s problems remain unknown and untreated. This is compounded by the lack of a system of identifying disabled children. Reliable statistical information on disabilities is not readily available. 64