The Effects of Population Density on the Family and social Problems in Nablus City

Year: 
2003
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Authors: 
Fadia Ahmed Amin Almsri
Abstract: 
This Research is setup to expound population density and crowdness effect on people mutually between family members at home and between families living together in the same area fostering the inclination of social and human relation equilibrium internally at family level and externally at the surrounding environment. The importance of this research leaped out to float up this phenomena in order to elicit and develop proper solutions to people crowdness and its indispensable effect on social disorder in Palestinian community generally and at Nablus city particularly wittingly it was only recently that some regional and international organizations has intrigued interest to consecrate collective & ample efforts to induct this controversial social provision on their agenda. This study debut a comparison derived from people density effect on social disorder classified from quantity and quality between different groups (Refugee camps / Nablus old city / Nablus developed districts in which Main Refugee camp represent the first group and ALQARyoon area represent the old city and RAFEEDYA district has been selected to represent the last group. The research encompass six chapters in which the first chapter concentrate on scope work plan implied a summing up of population crowdness and family housing unit and the importance of healthy conditions availability in this unit and the definition of crowdness and its effect on healthy internal relations between family members as well as learning problem in terms of sources limits, objectives, and previous researches. The second chapter discussed population infrastructure complies from life age and social class of individuals fall in the subjected study areas which revealed that all inhabitants in study area poised to be found at youth age with standard of 18 years old in Nablus city . The ratio of old age people to the youth aggregated to 9.8% while the reatio of children's to women's count 33%. The ratio of family bread provider at the subjected study areas reach to 75% which is less than the same ratio in Palestine calculated to %102. The ratio of social classes in the study area represents 109.6% higher than the ratio at Nablus City, which read 103.3%. its pertinent to point out that comprehensive study has been made to social and encomical structure for example public education level study revealed the ratio of 7.9% percent to individuals age from 10 years and above which is less than the literacy ratio in Palestine which reached 11.6% percent to the same age class. Public Marital situation was exposed to this study show that bachelor status ratio between males is higher than females which read 25.5% in the study areas construed by 48.4% to males and 51.6% to females , while the age of males on the first marriage is 25.5 years and 20.8 years to females. The study content population working condition which revealed that those who work in the profession of services leveled on top position for most of the population living in the study areas at a ratio of 19.2% complied of 12.6 males and 6.6% females. consequently mainly performed by male the second profession followed profession is house builders which leveled to 18.2% percent while average monthly income for family head aggregated to 275 ,JD at study areas gleamed RAFEEDYA district to hold top level income average read JD 332 while QARYIooN area read the lowest level of JD 200 . The substantial factor affecting income level explicitly explained by the acquired education level profession nature, and general commercial activities of individuals in subjected study provided that general Merchant profession found to be the major profitable field of financial income to family head and those who work in this line with average monthly earning calculated to JD 600 while the Ratio of those who work in merchant lineread 10.5% from total study sample. Family structure also was on focus highlighted by the factor of average family size aggregated to 5.2% in study areas which is less than the same factor in Nablus governate calculated to 5.6% percent. Also study assert the domination type of nucleus family in study areas display the ratio of 89% while the same factor percentage in town read 98.5%. The third chapter assigned to residence distinction which displayed the ownership percentage that landlords ratio in study areas read 31.1% less than the same factor in town calculated to 67.9% while the rented houses percentage found to be 69.5%( 25.3) returned by UNRWA . Average annual rent in study areas is JD 647 provided that usual Annual house rent average in West Bank leveled to JD 795 , noticeably that houses build from stones in study areas are bungalows 70% higher in percentage than the same factor in Nablus city which read 54.5%. The average of house metric measurement at study areas calculated to 100 square meter less than the same factor in Nablus city , and average rooms capacity in house of study, area is 2.8 room less than the same factor at Nablus city calculated to 3.7 room while unit room occupation ratio in study areas displayed 1.8% individual which is found parity level in Nablus city and government. Chapter four focused on family social disorder which displayed that the most internal family disorder is between the parents with factor percentage reached to %83 between the father and his children which read 6.5% and between the mother and her children's which read 45% and finally disorder with the neighbors at a percentage read 3.9%. This chapter manipulate one of the main cause of most social disorder the families are suffering from which is children's repellent that reaped a percentage of 5.8% on regular basis in study areas and 18.8% percent on intervals , while school learned percentage for both sex read 9%splitted equally at 4.5 percent to each gender provided that male school leakage ratio reach higher level than female which read %8.4 and 5.2% to female ."/0 Also the study displayed the problem at skinflint management of family heads at study areas whom they force their youth females to get married at an early age , this percentage reach 10.6% on regular basis and at 4.8% on intervals. As for the problem of male infatuation to have more than one wife, the study found this common exercise percentage ratio reached at study areas 10.3%and noticed that the existence of prolonged disease between any family member engender social disorder and interdict them to relish normal life, this phenomena reach a percentage of %37.1 in study, areas . At the end of this chapter the social phenomena of violence against wife, rough treatment , and unlawfully harmful bodily force use on her, this type of act noticed to reach a percentage of 11% in study areas splatted between 1.3% on regular basis and 9.7% on intervals. The against children's of family member ratio read 29% splatted between 9% on regular basis and 20% on intervals. The final last seven chapter blink ample analysis to purported output and advise the researcher recommendations.
Pages Count: 
254
Status: 
Published