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Abstract Many studies in literature was studied on mothers and families. In this study, it was aimed to examination to rejection behaviors of fathers having with mentally disabled child. Data in this study was collected from an rehabilitation center in Konya, where was reviewed 50 fathers. During gathering the data, information form and Parental Acceptance Rejection Questionnaire was used. For tested fathers’ rejection behavior to differentiate whether age, educational level and income or not, we were used Kruskal Wallis and Mann Whitney U tests. Total rejection score of 50 fathers was found rather high.The fathers’ rejection  was differentiated according to the income levels. The rejection behaviour of the fathers with low and high income was found significiantly. The other factors were not important on the rejection. Keywords: Mental disability, Parental Acceptance, Parental Rejection, Father Rejection

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