DISTURBED AND DYSFUNCTION AL FAMILY RELARTIONSHIP AND CHILD GROWTH

HOME SCIENCE

However, family relationships become disturbed because of a variety of factors and thus causes the family situation to be lacking in the fundamental areas that contribute to normal home-life. Family relationships are often disturbed because of illness, separation, desertion, divorce, death as well as because of economic or psychological stress. In such cases the family is not able to contribute optimally to the child's development. The problem of vagrant children is becoming acute due to urbanisation and industrialisation. One often comes across children who commit thefts, take to begging or are loafing about in the cities. They arm not looked after by their families and are not able to take advantage of educational facilities. Because of the absence of love and security in the home, they come out and try to earn their bread but when they meet with failures, they adopt various fair and foul methods for their survival. In case those children are not looked after, they have the potential of becoming delinquents. Hence, the deprived child could be the child who has no home or the child who has a home but not a normal home-life. In such cases it is necessary to assess whether or not a substitute home should be found for the child. A family is the single most important influence in a child’s life. It provides security, identity, and values to its members, regardless of their age. An individual learns about his sense of self and gains a foundation for the rest of his life. This foundation includes the family’s values which provide the basis for his own moral code. Therefore, the parenting style that parents adopt while raising children can have a huge impact on their development and growth. Now, imagine the mental condition of a child, especially a toddler, brought up in an environment where problems such as parental negligence, rigidity, alcoholism or abuse exist in the family, disturbing its smooth functioning, leading to constant conflicts, fights, arguments, and tension.

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