What's the first known system of welfare for the disabled?

dumped in the wild as babby

did you never hear the story of romulus and remus? that shit was happening all the time bro

>>2110423
Was hitler gay?

left in the streets to rot until like the 1900's

Even as recent as the 1980s kids with severe disabilities like downs syndrome were often just sent away to institutions where they'd live out the rest of their lives away from the public eye (often in deplorable conditions).

A couple tragic documentaries & journalistic exposés about the inhumane treatment of the poor souls in those institutions came out that really changed the way people saw the disabled.

>>2110423
if you knew you were going to have a downie babby, would you have an abortion?

>>2110423

Charity was generally the only option until surprisingly recently, when the likes of poor houses started to be built.

>>2110423
Bismarck's Germany.

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>>2110423
>What's the first known system of welfare for the disabled?

>The concepts of welfare and pension were introduced in early Islamic law as forms of Zakat (charity), one of the Five Pillars of Islam, under the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century. This practice continued well into the Abbasid era of the Caliphate. The taxes (including Zakat and Jizya) collected in the treasury of an Islamic government were used to provide income for the needy, including the poor, elderly, orphans, widows, and the disabled. According to the Islamic jurist Al-Ghazali (Algazel, 1058–1111), the government was also expected to stockpile food supplies in every region in case a disaster or famine occurred. The Caliphate can thus be considered the world's first major welfare state

- Crone, Patricia (2005), Medieval Islamic Political Thought, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 308–09, ISBN 0-7486-2194-6

-Shadi Hamid (August 2003), "An Islamic Alternative? Equality, Redistributive Justice, and the Welfare State in the Caliphate of Umar", Renaissance: Monthly Islamic Journal, 13 (8)

>>2111079
What about the free grain from rome? Isnt that earlier?

>>2110423
Madness and Civilization by Foucault is a very good analysis of the treatment of the mentally disabled through the ages.