Question

Write an Essay on the Impact of Population Explosion on Education (India)

Answer 1

How children are affected by divorce is a question of huge importance to your children and, of course, to you. Sadly, experts sometimes are confused about how divorce affects children, and they can offer parents conflicting advice. That's why I emphasize what research tells us in The Truth about Children and Divorce. I especially focus on what parents can do to promote their children's well-being in the face of the sometimes dramatic changes divorce introduces into children's lives.

For concerned parents, perhaps the most important thing to know is that you can do much to promote your children's resilience. In fact, how you parent and work with your children's other parent basically is going to determine whether your children are resilient — or end up as a statistic. I tell you how to do this — practically and emotionally — in The Truth about Children and Divorce. (See Staying Together for Children, if you are debating whether or not to divorce.)

So how are children affected by divorce? The answer is not simple, which is one reason for much confusion.

First of all, divorce is almost always stressful for children. Most children do not want their parents to separate (unless the marriage was full of intense conflict and anger or other sources of misery not suitable for children). Divorce also can strain parent-child relationships, lead to lost contact with one parent, create economic hardships, and increase conflict between parents (including legal conflicts — for a way to avoid these see Emery's Divorce Mediation Study). For all these reasons, most children have a hard time during the divorce transition. How long the transition lasts depends upon on how calm or how chaotic you and your ex make it. Parents who do a good job managing the stresses of divorce for children often are surprised by how quickly their kids make the adjustment.

Second, divorce clearly increases the risk that children will suffer from psychological and behavioral problems. Troubled children are particularly likely to develop problems with anger, disobedience, and rule violations. School achievement also can suffer. Other children become sad for prolonged periods of time. They may become depressed, anxious, or become perhaps overly responsible kids who end up caring for their parents instead of getting cared for by them.
Most of the growth is currently taking place in the developing world, where rates of natural increase are much higher than in industrialized countries. Con­cern that this might lead to over population has led some countries to adopt population control policies.

However, since people in developing countries con­sume far less, especially of non-renewable resources, per head of population than people in industrialized countries, it has been argued that the West should set an example in population control instead of giving, for example, universal child benefit.

The Definition of Over Population:

In the past, infant and childhood deaths and short life spans used to limit popu­lation growth In today’s world, thanks to improved nutrition, sanitation, and medical care, more babies survive their first few years of life.

The combination of a continuing high birth rate and a low death rate is creating a rapid popula­tion increase in many countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and people generally lived longer. Over-population is defined as the condition of having more people than can live on the earth in comfort, happiness and health and still leave the world a fit place for future generations. But some people now believe that the greatest threat to the future comes from over-population.