INFLUENCING FACTORS OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT
Child moral development is affected due to many reasons
1. Family is the primary school for children in all disciplines like education, culture, discipline, courtesy etc. The environment of household and family influences the moral development of the child. The family can provide cultural paradigms to children in practical terms. Positive moral development of children occurs rapidly in families where members are harmonious, children have the opportunity to make independent decisions and face the consequences of their decisions, moral stories and literature are available to children, displaying cultural practices If you get the prize, try to make the children morally strong.
The families whose members keep fighting and quarreling with each other, even if there is disturbance, it also has an impact on the moral development of the child. Children become undisciplined. If a child is despised due to having more children, unexpected children or for any other reason, he often gets involved in immoral activities. The immoral character and behavior of the parents have a very bad effect on the child.
2. School - The child enters the school in seed form by taking characteristics and moral qualities from his family. These qualities germinate and develop in a broader context within the school environment itself. In schools where the environment is pure, balanced and right, beyond caste, religion, class discrimination, nurturing national unity and harmony, the moral development of students takes place there. The contaminated physical environment of the school, corrupt curriculum, rigorous or inadequate discipline, misbehavior of teachers, unavailability of appropriate means of entertainment, etc. prove to be a hindrance in the moral development of the students. Children become abusive.
3. Development of intelligence - There is a relative relationship between moral development and intellectual development. Valentin and Burt consider low intelligence to be a cause of child crime. Children with low intelligence cannot differentiate between right and wrong. Wise children take 1 decision of right and wrong soon.
4. Peer group The association of friends affects the moral development of the child. The child learns all the good and bad things in the companionship of his friends and companions. According to Healy 34% and 18% according to Cyril Burt were due to child-offender association.
