Question

effects of environment on a child

Answer 1

a child has massive effect of environment.
The effect of the environment on child development cannot be understated, including their physical surroundings. If your living environment is cramped, noisy and filled with aggression, your child's personality can be affected. If you have too many people living at home, this could cause your child to seek out alternative forms of attention, leading to an emotional distance between them and you. Further, unpleasant surroundings often cause children to block out or bury the negativity, making them more introverted.

Answer 2

Brain imaging research suggests that growing
up in a disadvantaged environment causes the
brain to develop differently.7
For example, living in an environment affected by chaos and
poverty can lead to changes in the brain’s stress
system that increase a child’s vulnerability to
chronic diseases later in life.8
Studies of very young children have identified
distinctive patterns of brain activity associated
with family income and socioeconomic status,
especially in brain areas related to social and
emotional development, language ability, and
learning and memory.9-11
The home environment can even affect a child’s brain development.
A risk factor is a condition that is statistically
associated with a given outcome. For example,
children who grow up poor are more likely
than other children to drop out of high school.
Poverty, then, is a risk factor for high school
dropout. Not all poor children will drop out of
high school, of course. They are said to be at risk
because as a group they have a higher incidence
of dropout.
Research has identified specific aspects of a
child’s environment that are associated with
later outcomes. Commonly studied risk factors
include poverty/income, maternal depression,
and low maternal education. They are strong
predictors of later outcomes including academic
performance, cognitive development, and social
and emotional well-being.12-14
Risk factors like these can affect children even
in the first years of life. Early risk is associated
with later behavioral and academic outcomes.
For example, risk exposure during infancy
appears to be more detrimental for children’s
school readiness than later exposure.13,14
What is a risk factor ?
The Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive
Development and Learning in Early Childhood
(CANDLE) is an ongoing study of approximately 1,500 Shelby County women and their young
children. Mothers enroll in their 2nd trimester
and participate until their children are three
years old. The CANDLE study collects information on numerous aspects of development,
including health, nutrition, cognition functioning, and psychosocial well-being.
Overall, CANDLE participants are similar to
Shelby County mothers as a whole, increasing the likelihood that trends seen among the
CANDLE group can be generalized to expectant
mothers throughout Shelby County. This chapter uses CANDLE data to examine the presence
of three well-known risk factors—low-income,
low maternal education, and maternal depression—among our community’s young children.15
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