Unit 5: Family Life Education and Quality of Life
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How
can you compare quality life and low quality of life?
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Role
of family size to maintain quality of life?
Lesson
3: Indicators of Comfortable life (Indicators of Happy and Quality Life)
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The population growth
rate and economic development rate of a country are directly related to the
quality of life.
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For quality life, there
must be economic growth rate must be greater than population growth rate.
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Each family member has
responsibility to make happy and prosperous life by fulfilling overall needs.
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For this each family member
has to bring positive change in their behavior.
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This leads to attain a
quality of life by economic, social and other overall development.
The indicators of comfortable life are
as follows:
- Small
family size
- Quality
education
- Marriage
at appropriate age
- First
conception at proper age
- Birth
spacing
- Nutritious
food
- Gender
equality
- Saving
- Health
and sanitation
- Responsibility
of parents towards the children
Small Family Size:
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Small family size is an
important determinant of happy life.
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There is a frequently
used saying, ‘small family is a happy family’.
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If family is small,
then management of elements of quality of life such as clothes, education,
health, shelter etc. can easily be done.
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All members spend
happily life.
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If the family size is
large, there is economic burden to fulfill basic and other additional needs.
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It hampers quality of
life.
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That’s why there must
be small family size to attain quality of life.
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It is very important to
have family planning.
Quality Education:
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Quality education is
another important indicator of comfortable or happy life.
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It develops intuition
of what is right and what is wrong.
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Quality education
provides better employment opportunities, better income and easier fulfillment
of family needs.
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Quality education
enhances people’s awareness regarding their health and sanitation which leads
to better health status.
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Quality education
provides mutual understanding, peace, love and harmony among the family
members.
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Due to these reasons,
quality education is a good indicator of quality life without which quality of
life is almost impossible.
Marriage at appropriate age:
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Marriage at appropriate
age is an important indicator of quality of life.
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When marriage is done
at an appropriate age, couple become mentally, physically and socially mature
and can have ability of decision.
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The reproductive organs
of female become well developed after the age of 20 years.
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They have knowledge of
birth spacing and family planning.
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They can make proper
plan to make their family happy which leads to a quality of life.
First conception at appropriate age:
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First conception at
appropriate age is also an important indicator of quality of life.
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The age 20-30 years is
the best age for the first conception for women.
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The reproductive organs
of female become well developed after the age of 20 years.
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Women can get chances
to be engaged in income generation activities and education.
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Married couple can
enjoy the charms of married life.
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They can have enough
time for future plan.
Birth Spacing:
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Birth spacing is an
important indicator of comfortable/happy life.
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Birth spacing is
suitable and proper gap between two successive pregnancies.
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The gap between first
and second child must be 4-5 years.
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It prevents
complications in infants and maternal health.
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It prevents economic
burden.
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Children get proper
care, love and affection.
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Therefore birth spacing
must be done by mutual understanding.
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So, it is necessary to
have proper birth spacing for quality of life.
Nutritious Food:
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It is one of basic need
and important indicator of quality of life.
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Nutritious Food and
balanced diet is very important and compulsory factor for the overall
development of family members.
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It determines social,
physical and mental health of family members.
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It develops immunity
system of body which keeps away from the diseases.
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Lack of a balanced diet
causes malnutrition and different types of diseases.
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The human life becomes
painful.
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That’s why to get a
quality life, consumption of nutritious food and a balanced diet is compulsory.
Gender Equality:
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It is one of the
important indicators of quality of life.
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It is necessary for
happy family and quality life.
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Environment gender
equality and co-existence creates romantic, peaceful and delightful with mutual
harmony.
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It brings affectionate
relationship between spouse and siblings.
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It brings happiness in
the family.
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There is still
discrimination among son and daughters.
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This causes the birth
of children until the birth of son.
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This leads to the
increase in the family size.
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This creates scarcity
and economic burden.
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This hampers in quality
of life.
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So, there must be
gender equality.
Saving:
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It is one of the
important indicators of quality of life.
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The income we generate
is used to fulfill the demands of family needs.
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During this process we
have to expense economically only on necessary materials and have to make the
habit of saving.
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It should be deposited
on bank which earns interest as well as protects from robbery and unnecessary
expenses.
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It creates a fund for
us on emergency and we don’t need to lend money on interest
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Savings can be invested
on other income generating business.
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This makes our economy
strong, makes easy to fulfill needs and lead to a quality life
Health & Sanitation:
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It is one of the
important indicators of quality of life.
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It is said that,
“Health is a Wealth.”
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So, health is considered
as an element of quality of life.
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Healthy citizens and
manpower are backbone for the development of a country.
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A nation must provide
to citizens and parents must think about good health of their children.
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To attain quality of
life our surrounding like house, water resources, garden, streets, school,
temples, lakes etc. must be neat and clean without any pollution and waste
thrown aside.
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Sanitation prevents the
diseases and increases the longevity of human beings and makes family members
active.
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Healthy and active
people participate in the developmental activities and contribute to the
attainment of quality of life.
Responsibility of Parents towards
the Children:
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To provide quality
education, health facilities, taking care, to make them independent are
responsibilities of parents.
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If parents fulfill
their responsibilities, then the children also will become able to fulfill
their responsibilities towards their families which leads to the quality of life.
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Children are also
future parents.
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So, they must have good
behavior towards their parents.
Sampled
Very Short Questions
- Why does quality
of life depend on family size?
- Why does quality
of life differ from person to person?
- Write any one
cause of low quality of life.
- What is the
appropriate birth space for getting quality of life?
- How does marriage
at proper age help to make quality of life? Write any one point.
- What is women
empowerment?
- What is ultimate
goal of population education?
Sampled
Short Questions
- Define low quality
of life and write its three disadvantages.
- Prepare a short
note on “Marriage at appropriate age for quality of life”.
- Prepare a short
note on “Gender Equality for quality of life”.
- “There is high
possibility of quality of life in a family with educated females”. Justify
statement.
- “A poor but
healthy person can gain quality of life”. Justify the statement.
- “There is high
maternal and infant mortality rate in the family with low quality of
life”. Explain.
- Why does the
definition of quality of life differ according to country, time and
situation? Explain with suitable reason and examples.
- Two families with
same income may have different quality of life. Justify with suitable examples.
- A financially
sound family may also lack quality of life. Why?
- Why should quality
of life be defined relatively?
- How is quality of
life and low quality of life are inter related?
- “Measurement of quality
life is a complex concept”. Justify.
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