People with disabilities face attitudinal barriers including prejudice, stereotypes, and low expectations. Many young people without disabilities may doubt that people with disabilities can be fulfilling partners in any loving adult relationship. The objective of the present research was to assess the willingness of non-disabled youth to engage in conjugal relationships with persons with disabilities in Wolaita Sodo town, Ethiopia. Both descriptive and explanatory study designs were used and quantitative data were collected. A self-administered questionnaire was designed and distributed to randomly selected 403 (202 females & 201 males) unmarried youth. Data analysis was undertaken using SPSS software in which both descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were utilized for data presentation. The result showed that most (85.5%) of the young people without disabilities participated in the survey were not willing to have any type of personal relationships with persons with disabilities and the main reason for 44.2% of these respondents being the fear of reaction from family members. Furthermore, it was found that the level of willingness of youth without disabilities to engage in romantic love and marital relationships was not influenced by the socio-economic status of people with disabilities. Moreover, the result of binary logistic regression analysis showed that the willingness of respondents to have marital and romantic love relationship with persons with disabilities is significantly associated to the sex (OR = 2.376; P < 0.05; 95%CI = 1.210, 4.664), raised-up area (OR = 2.512; P < 0.01; 95%CI = 1.319, 4.783), age (OR = 2.886; P < 0.05; 95%CI = 1.012, 8.228) and the presence of person with disability in the family (OR = 3.945; P < 0.01; 95%CI = 1.648, 9.442) of respondents. The findings of the present research demonstrate that people with disabilities have continued to face stereotypes and discriminations. Such stereotypes extend to assuming them as asexual and unfit to carryout roles that arise from love or marital relationships which violates the rights of PWDs to form their own family and have children. It is therefore, important to raise the awareness of young people about the differences between disability and sexuality and that physical disability has nothing to do with sexuality and relationship formation.

残疾人面临态度障碍，包括偏见、刻板印象和低期望。许多没有残疾的年轻人可能怀疑残疾人能否成为任何充满爱心的成人关系中令人满意的伴侣。本研究的目的是评估埃塞俄比亚沃莱塔索多镇非残疾青年与残疾人建立婚姻关系的意愿。使用描述性和解释性研究设计并收集定量数据。我们设计了一份自填式问卷，并分发给随机选择的 403 名（202 名女性和 201 名男性）未婚青年。使用SPSS软件进行数据分析，其中利用描述性和推论性统计技术来呈现数据。结果显示，大部分（85.5%）参与调查的无残疾青少年不愿意与残疾人建立任何形式的私人关系，其中44.2%受访者的主要原因是担心家人的反应成员。此外，研究发现，健康青少年恋爱和婚姻关系的意愿水平不受残疾人社会经济地位的影响。此外，二元Logistic回归分析结果显示，受访者与残疾人建立婚姻和恋爱关系的意愿与性别显着相关(OR = 2.376; P  < 0.05; 95%CI = 1.210, 4.664)，凸起面积（OR = 2.512；P  < 0.01；95%CI = 1.319, 4.783）、年龄（OR = 2.886；P < 0.05；95%CI = 1.012, 8.228）以及家庭中是否有残疾人（OR = 3.945；P  < 0.01；95%CI = 1.648, 9.442）的受访者。本研究的结果表明，残疾人继续面临陈规定型观念和歧视。这种陈规定型观念延伸到认为他们是无性恋，不适合承担由爱情或婚姻关系产生的角色，这侵犯了残疾人组建自己的家庭和生育孩子的权利。因此，重要的是要提高年轻人对残疾和性行为之间差异的认识，并且身体残疾与性行为和关系形成无关。