{"id":67706,"date":"2020-03-24T04:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T04:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/?p=67706"},"modified":"2020-10-07T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:37:43","slug":"neighborhood-influence-crucial-for-child-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/neighborhood-influence-crucial-for-child-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood influence crucial for child development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"38520354a5201685ddf480eec688e1a7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ample researches have linked the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>neighborhood influence on child development<\/strong><\/span><\/em> pointing out some critical issues. But are we taking a serious note of this? It has been seen children when shifted from compromised and sick living quarters to decent pads improved on <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>health<\/strong><\/span><\/em>. Hospital visits dropped owing to this change of ambience and lifestyle. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67780 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/Children-growing-up-in-slums-and-crowded-localities.jpg\" alt=\"Children growing up in slums and crowded localities\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/Children-growing-up-in-slums-and-crowded-localities.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/Children-growing-up-in-slums-and-crowded-localities-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/Children-growing-up-in-slums-and-crowded-localities-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children growing up in slums and crowded localities filled with shouts, quarrels and garbage are exposed to erosion in moral values.\u00a0 Studies show that it is the quality of neighborhood that shapes an adolescent mind. A bad neighborhood is bad because people living there do not follow the norms of a civilized society.\u00a0 The attitude is infectious,\u00a0rotten surroundings have always bred diseases, school dropouts, criminals and children with everlasting personality issues.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are underway to seek if\u00a0neighborhood issues and its effect on\u00a0child&#8217;s personality could be\u00a0resolved.\u00a0 Improvement in dwelling areas and moving away from the wretched neighborhood could bring in some positive changes in children&#8217;s minds.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Studies show better neighborhood improves children&#8217;s health:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67781 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/better-neighborhood-improves-childrens-health.jpg\" alt=\"better neighborhood improves children's health\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/better-neighborhood-improves-childrens-health.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/better-neighborhood-improves-childrens-health-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/better-neighborhood-improves-childrens-health-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new study conducted, selecting 4604 families focusing investigation into an average age of eleven years reveals interesting results.\u00a0 Children of families gifted with housing vouchers for relocation to low poverty neighborhoods went to hospitals fewer times.\u00a0 Records of hospital admission for this group were 16% less than those living in the poorly maintained neighborhoods.\u00a0 The annual hospital expenditure for relocated families fell by 24 percent.<\/p>\n<p>On an overall cost-benefit scenario, the expenditure on shifting families to low poverty neighborhoods is on the favorable side.\u00a0 It is offset by a drop in health restoration expenditure on children. However, the biggest stumbling blocks for improving housing and other needs for better children health are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insufficiency of data to monitor improvement<\/li>\n<li>Lack of enough operating manpower.<\/li>\n<li>Financial constraints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is pretty hard to map out the entire program within a dedicated time frame so that which ways the efforts are channeled are not always pronounced.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lesley Cottrel, professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/diyhealth.com\/how-to-deal-with-pediatric-traumatic-brain-injury.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em><strong>pediatrics<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> at West Virginia University and Director of its Centre for Excellence in Disabilities, improvement in housing would benefit children\u2019s health.\u00a0 Improvement in housing is likely to nurture a healthy neighborhood.\u00a0 So the positive connection between a decent neighborhood and child development is apparent.\u00a0 Besides housing, infrastructure, transportation and school education have a say in molding impressionable minds of kids.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The neighborhood quality has a permanent impression on children&#8217;s behavior:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67782 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/neighborhood-quality-has-a-permanent-impression-on-childrens-behavior.jpg\" alt=\"neighborhood quality has a permanent impression on children's behavior\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/neighborhood-quality-has-a-permanent-impression-on-childrens-behavior.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/neighborhood-quality-has-a-permanent-impression-on-childrens-behavior-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/neighborhood-quality-has-a-permanent-impression-on-childrens-behavior-768x497.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several studies conducted at different points of time reveal that neighborhood influence is crucial for child development.\u00a0\u00a0A research carried out at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health hits upon startling results.\u00a0 It advocates that it is extremely important that children be exposed to quality neighborhood for intellectual development.<\/p>\n<p>Previous insightful studies show children\u2019s attitudes and the external environment are interactive.\u00a0 They influence each other.\u00a0 The external environment has an effect on a child&#8217;s personality as they have a bearing on their behavioral pattern.<\/p>\n<p>In the industrial western societies, 6 to 7 percent of the children draw in garbage from an ill-structured neighborhood.\u00a0 As they grow up, more of them show trends of rebellion, delinquent behavior,\u00a0stealing, and car lifting and street fights.\u00a0 It is simply a glaring example of growing up in a bad neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>A sample survey of 3563 children was conducted between 1997 and 2007 with the intent to explore parental reviews on neighborhood.\u00a0 Neighborhoods were assigned grades as &#8220;good &#8220;, &#8221; fair &#8221; or &#8221; poor &#8221; with reference to child upbringing on a 0 &#8211; 20 scale.\u00a0 Zero was considered the worst and twenty,\u00a0the best. In the context of the set benchmark, <a href=\"https:\/\/parentingclan.com\/major-challenges-faced-by-parents-in-todays-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>parents<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> answered questionnaires on their children&#8217;s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The sampling experiment inferred that children between the age group of 7 to 12 had behavioral issues for &#8216; poor &#8216; neighborhoods whereas for excellent neighborhoods, their behavior was stable and socially acceptable.\u00a0 With a little statistics, the mean problem behavior count was 4 and externalizing problem behavior (like aggression) count was 1.7.<\/p>\n<p>Behavioral disorder in children belonging to the faulty neighborhood is mostly a fall-out of family distress.\u00a0 Dysfunctional families absorbed negativities of a deteriorating neighborhood and passed on the same to their children.\u00a0 However, the study also found children less than six years were rather insulated from neighborhood abuse.\u00a0The scary part of it, when these juvenile delinquents grow up, the violent instincts in them would magnify.<\/p><div class=\"38520354a5201685ddf480eec688e1a7\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Professor Anne Riley in the Department of population, family and Reproductive Health at Bloomberg School has made\u00a0contributions in this area.\u00a0 She holds that neighborhood influence is crucial for child development.\u00a0 Further, she adds that the impact of social atmosphere on children has a linear relationship on time scale.\u00a0 Better the neighborhood better the children and more the time of exposure deeper is the impact.\u00a0 She also notes a better family atmosphere may give some protection to the child against evils of a chaotic neighborhood.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Determinants of neighborhood quality:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67783 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/role-of-family-school-and-neighbors-is-important-in-shaping-the-childrens-mind.jpg\" alt=\"role of family, school and neighbors is important in shaping the children's mind\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/role-of-family-school-and-neighbors-is-important-in-shaping-the-childrens-mind.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/role-of-family-school-and-neighbors-is-important-in-shaping-the-childrens-mind-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/role-of-family-school-and-neighbors-is-important-in-shaping-the-childrens-mind-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is not just enough to identify the effects of growing up in a bad neighborhood and just sit back. Which are the factors that have made a neighborhood bad? This is more important. The role of family, school and neighbors is important in shaping the children&#8217;s mind and if we don&#8217;t take one further step to identify the source, it is simply the effort getting wasted.<\/p>\n<p>From the opinions of independent reviewers, primarily 5 five causes are to blame for the falling quality of a locality.\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pilling up of heaps of rubbish with a little effort for disposal<\/li>\n<li>Housing units showing clear signs of wear and tear with no repair or renovation<\/li>\n<li>Streets with little or no maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Noisy neighbors giving a disturbing feel of utter bedlam<\/li>\n<li>Drug addicts visible in street corners hooked on to substance abuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other factors ruining a child&#8217;s mental stability are poor earnings and low education,\u00a0loud quarrels in families,\u00a0non-corporeal discipline,\u00a0parental neglect and wrong choice of friend circle.<\/p>\n<p>Though many parents are aware that neighborhood influence is crucial for child development they have little options.\u00a0 They see how the cultural deterioration of places they live eat into their children&#8217;s psyche.\u00a0 They are helpless and unable to move out for reasons like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of financial resources<\/li>\n<li>Present neighborhood close to the place of work<\/li>\n<li>They being a minority community dare not explore staying in better locations dominated by majority communities.<\/li>\n<li>Unable to fit into a better and yet unfamiliar location.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They kind of resigned to fate living in a disturbed and impoverished neighborhood ruining their children&#8217;s mental and physical wellbeing.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Housing and neighborhood play a vital part in putting children on the right track:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67784 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/Housing-and-neighborhood-play-a-vital-part.jpg\" alt=\"Housing and neighborhood play a vital part\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/Housing-and-neighborhood-play-a-vital-part.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/Housing-and-neighborhood-play-a-vital-part-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/Housing-and-neighborhood-play-a-vital-part-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Neighborhood influence is crucial for child development is certainly now gaining ground.\u00a0 Here we go with how this can be achieved on a positive note. Research is underway to find out elemental features of neighborhood and their impact on children&#8217;s minds.<\/p>\n<p>Parameters like overcrowded living quarters,\u00a0quality of residences and residents,\u00a0financial support for moving into comely locations, affordability and stability have a role providing correct neighborhood, a neighborhood that will support the healthy growth of children.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better the quality of housing better would be the emotional, physical and cognitive potential of children.<\/li>\n<li>A government initiative to ban lead-based paint in housing which is detrimental to child health.<\/li>\n<li>Neighborhood experts are designing holistic approaches that take into account housing in the light of quality of surrounding the neighborhood and community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the neighborhood is vital for child development,\u00a0it is advisable not to shun the known surrounding and opt for relocation.\u00a0 A structural repair of the known neighborhood can help. A known neighborhood gives you the very familiar atmosphere you have grown up in. One may not get the homely feel in a new location.\u00a0What is required is rehabilitation and elimination of negative features.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A bad neighborhood can damage generations:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29000 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/09\/Educational-methods-4.jpg\" alt=\"students in class\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/09\/Educational-methods-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/09\/Educational-methods-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/09\/Educational-methods-4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now comes the most striking part! The influence of neighborhood on the child does not end in one generation.\u00a0 A bad locality can ruin the moral fiber of posterity as well.\u00a0 The role of family,\u00a0school and neighbors extends beyond one generation.\u00a0 In their research on historical effects,\u00a0Shankey and co-author Felix Elwert conducted a study on thousands of American families.<\/p>\n<p>The history of their growth, achievement or otherwise has been recorded since 1968. Parents who were not educated generations ago passed the poor education down the generations if they didn&#8217;t move out to locations inhabited with educated people.\u00a0 Since education and job has a close correlation, descendants of poor earners could not shake off the curse of meager income.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, those who moved out to greener pastures had second or even third generation bloodlines doing well in terms of education and decent employment.\u00a0\u00a0In the context of neighborhood influence for child development,\u00a0we cannot be blind to the racial factor involved.<\/p>\n<p>For generations, American blacks haven&#8217;t left their favorite ghettos.\u00a0 Criminal activities here reach new heights.\u00a0 In studies conducted,\u00a041 percent of African- American parent- child pairs grew up in sick neighborhoods up to two generations.\u00a0 They inherited the vices of their predecessors.\u00a0 The influence of a bad neighborhood is a force to reckon,\u00a0it\u2019s contribution being substantial to social and economic crimes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"38520354a5201685ddf480eec688e1a7\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; 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