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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<span>These are known as tephra, pyroclats or more generally as volcanic bombs.</span>
Their members become more privatized and less incorporated into the wider community. As competition and consumerism become more widespread, the traditional household, especially in its extended forms as institutions of micro-hierarchy, become eroded.