The Short Answer:
High and low tides are caused by the moon. The moon's gravitational pull generates something called the tidal force. The tidal force causes Earth—and its water—to bulge out on the side closest to the moon and the side farthest from the moon. These bulges of water are high tides.
The one that is not a reason why India’s efforts to reduce its population growth has had mixed results is: <span><em>The government has made little effort to increase the status of women, increase family planning and contraceptive access, or encourage couples to limit family size.
</em>On the contrary, the government of India constantly made these efforts to ask the citizens to limit the number of their children through Television ads, newspaper column, or even through schools' academic books <em>
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