Education
plays vital role in any nation’s building. Educated persons participate in the
process of progress. Education gives awareness to human about each and every
aspect of life. Especially the education of children is very important for any
nation because children are the future of a nation. But all children can’t get
equal and proper educational facilities and resources due to some reasons like
low economic condition , lack of resources , cultural barriers , lack of
parents education and One important factor is family size that greatly effects
children’s education in negative way . If we see the condition of Asian
population increasing day by day therefore; Demographic matters have gained
prime importance.
INTRODUCTION
It has been seen and observed that family
income, family type and family size are the most important factors in the
quality and quantity of children’s education which they attain during their
whole life time. (Jones, 1999 Rosetti, 2000)
It
has been observed that there is a negative relationship between family size and
educational attainment of the children. Family size increases the access to
educational facilities of children of that family decreases. Children belong to
small family size show good performance in their academics than those children
who belong to larger family size. It has been measured approximately that children from one
child families get 0.21years higher education than those children who belong to
larger family size (Black and Laeavuo, 2004)
The education of children is one of the main
and big kind of human’s investment and it is an important equipment that can be
used in near future to make continuous progress , to lessen the ratio of poverty and to increase the standards of life.
Education is usually considered as a strong source for decreasing the ratio of
poverty and economic development education gives people power and freedom to do
anything according to their own choice it increases the earning abilities of an
individual that can be helpful in
improving the health and living standard of people and people become
able to compete with others in economic
field ( UNICCO and world Bank, 2006)
Economic issues and family size
effect children’s educational attainment badly but the order of birth is also
an important factor and it plays important role in determining the children’s
participation in schools and effects the children’s educational outcomes
(Manler and Winkelmann, 2004)
As
we can see that literacy rate declined after 1991, there are a lot of reasons socio-economic factors behind this
decline which can directly or indirectly effect the education of children of family like lack of educational
facilities, some old traditions ,norms and values in our society that restrict
women to have access to the educational facilities there are some other factors that can affect
the education of children including parents education level, their social class,
their monthly income and one important thing family size if family size is
large there will be less resources to distribute equally among each child of the family. So the children will
not get education we can see this situation in Pakistan.(Ijaz 1995 Stephen,
1993)
In some families less attention is
paid on the education of females than male members of the house. The reason for
this discrimination is due to the presence of brothers or male members in
family. This relationship between gender and children’s educational attainment
was called “sibling Rivalry in the old literature. (Morduch , 2000)
Importance
of study
Education
has great importance in improving the living standard of nations and it’s a
great step towards progress and prosperity. Education is a set of skills that
gives human being knowledge and awareness about varies aspects of life and
gives courage to handle the different situations of life and to prepare our
self for future. Especially the education of children is really important for
any nation or country because children and youth are the treasure of a country.
There are many factors that affect educational attainment of children like economic status, home environment, parent’s
education level, teacher’s skills and child’s ability to learn. One important
factor is family size as we can see that population of world is getting fast
and creating a lot of problems. Large family sizes can’t afford the education
of their children. So I want to study the negative effects of family size on
children’s education.
CONCLUSION
Based on study findings, it can be concluded that
there are many factors that effects of family size on children’s education
including economic problems, lack of resources, parent’s education, learning
environment etc. One of the important factor is large family size that greatly
effects children’s educational attainment.
It was also concluded that majority of the children
belonging to large family sizes get less education than those who belong to
small families. Because large family size effects the resources which directly
effects the children’s educational outcomes. Mostly the less educated or in
some cases uneducated children belonged to the large and poor families.
Although the majority of the mothers were less
educated or uneducated and have little knowledge about family planning and
benefits of small family size but now the conditions are changing a little bit,
women are getting awareness about family planning methods. Now they are aware
about the importance of children’s education.
Married and literate women viewed that perceptions
of people about family planning has changed.
Most mothers said that large family sizes are
creating many problems in providing educational facilities and distributing
equal resources between their all children .They said that poverty is also a
hurdle in the way of children’s educational attainment; parents have less
financial resources to give educational facilities to their many children.
From the above findings it is concluded that
government should make policies to improve the living standard of rural people
and to reduce poverty .Free educational facilities should provided to rural
poor children. Family planning centers should develop near rural area and
medical staff should available there round the clock to give information to
females.
