INTRODUCTION
The work picks
up about the meaning of child, environments, life and society. And finally work
picks, up about the social, physical, economic and biological environment which
affects children in the society and these children failed to complete their
purposes of their daily life.
At the end of the environments which do
affects children in the society, this work picks about different solution
towards his environment which affect children in the society.
THE MEANING OF KEY TERMS
Child
A young human
being below the age of full physical development or below the legal age
majority.
Environment
Environment
refers to the surrounding or conditions in which person, animals or plants
lives or operates.
Life
Life refers to
the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from organic matter
including the capacity for growth, reproduction, respiration and others.
Society
Refers to the
community of people living in a particularly regions and having shared customs,
laws and organizations.
SOCIAL
ENVIRONMENTS WHICH DO AFFECT CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY.
Children in
the society may affect by many social environments or factors. The following
are the main environments which does affect children in the society.
Environment
without adequate love, care and nutrition. The
environments which may have this situation lead the affection of children in
the societies because children lacks good relationship between themselves and their parents or people who
live with this children in the society.
Also children lack good (nutrition) to repair their body.
Violence
within the society. This is another environment which
affect children in the society because children lack care and good security within
the society. This violation it may occur within children families or areas
around the children.
“For
the child who is a witness to violence directed towards other family members, physical
injury may not impair the child’s growth but psychologically injury can greatly
affect the child’s development”[1]
Environments
with Drug abuse. The environments which characterized by
drug abuse like smoking cigarette ,
drinking alcohol ,cocaine ,marijuana
and others do affect children in the
society because it may reach a time this children start to use them as a part of
their life.
“Vulnerability
to child abuse depends in a part on the child’s age and sex young children are
not most at high risk of physical abuse are at greater risk of sexual abuse
than boys”.[2]
Environments
with poor clean water and poor adequate toilet facilities.
The environment lacks this facilities do
affect children in the societies because children bodies became weak and un healthy
due to lacking enough and good clean water for drinking and washing their bodies . Also children lack good toilet
facilities for the purpose of storing their waste products after been removed
from their bodies.
Environments
with insects such as flies, mosquitoes and
ticks. This environments affects children in the
societies because due to this environments children became sick due to the eruption
of this insects which transmit dangerous diseases such as malaria and others.
Due to this situation children in the society affected highly and some of
children die due to the diseases which transmitted by this insects.
PHYSICAL
ENVIRONMENTS WHICH DO AFFECT CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY
Environments
with noise. Children do affected with noise from
their surrounding areas. According to Evans and his fellow colleagues suggested
that the noise which does affect children come from children’s homes and
airports. This environments affected children’s bodies and their ability of
performing daily activities.
Environments
with overcrowding. The environments which characterized
by large number of people affected children because some people did not care these
children. Also the environment with overcrowding affects children because lacks
basic needs such as food .clothes and shelter.
ECONOMIC
ENVIRONMENTS WHICH DO AFFECTS CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY.
Financial
problems (poverty). Children in the societies lacked
enough fund which can help them in various needs such as education, food,
shelter and clothes .Also due to the
lacking of funds ,children did not cared by their parents in the societies and
finally became street children.
“In the term of children development poverty is the one factor that can inhabit a child potential. In facts from
poor families are more likely to be born with a lower birth weight and the
mothers may experience complication in pregnancy and delivery”.[3]
Environments
with child labour. This is another environments which
affects children in the societies, this child labour refers to the employment of
un official job to the children under poor conditions . Due to this situation
lead the poor conditions and poor development to the children in the societies.
Environments
with drug trafficking. This is another environments which
affect children in the society because involves in drug trafficking and
discouraging their basic duties in the society. Also through the drug
trafficking children became drug user
and finally they affected mentally and healthy due to the trafficking and using
drugs like Marijuana, Alcohol ,Heroin ,Cocaine and others.
“Vulnerability
to child abuse depends in a part on the child’s age and sex. Youth children are
most at high risk of physical abuse girls are at a greater risk of sexual abuse
than boys”.[4]
Environments
with hereditary traits. This refers to the heredity off
behaviors which children heredity from their parents and lead them to be
affected mentally and physically. Also this behavior stimulated more by parents
who did not want to change their behaviors.
Environments
with chemical pollution. The environments which has chemical pollution affected children
in the societies because this chemical affected children in breathing mechanism
due to the air polluting which polluted by heavy industries in the societies where
children stay. Also environments with water pollution through chemicals pollution
affected children in the societies.
Environments
with poor parents and children interaction. Some families
ignored the contributions which brought by children in the families because
parents through that children have negative contributions to their families .Due
to this situation of negatively parent’s perception of neglecting children’s
contributions in the families, affects children mentally and healthy.
Environments
with Postnatal depression. The postnatal depression of
various areas of infant development they are yet come to consensus regarding the
time effects. This postnatal depression affected children in the societies
because children affected mentally and physically as Martin Seligman quotes
that :-
“Depression
is common cold of psycho-pathology and has touched the lives of us as all .yet it
is probably the most daily understand and most inadequately investigated of all
the major forms of psychopathology “.[5]
CONCLUSION
Generally, the
environments which affects the children in the societies can be modified and
became good to the children in the societies through improving good education
to the children, improving or providing basic needs to children’s providing good care to the children ,prohibiting child labour
and others improvement to the
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Curtin, A and O’ Hanagan, M, CARE AND EDUCATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD,2003.
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Tanzania institute of education: DIPLOMA IN SECONDARY EDUCATIONCURRICUM ,MODULE: HISTORY PEDAGOGY,Tanzania
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