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Assertion (A): While some cultures might celebrate the onset of menarche in adolescent girls, in other cultures this might be kept a secret. Reason (R): Childhood experiences are different for children who grow up in different cultural contexts. Choose the correct option.

Assertion (A): While some cultures might celebrate the onset of menarche in adolescent girls, in other cultures this might be kept a secret. Reason (R): Childhood experiences are different for children who grow up in different cultural contexts. Choose the correct option. Correct Answer Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Culture: Culture is defined as the "Culture is a set of rules or standards that, when acted upon by the members of a society, produce behavior that falls within a range of variance the members consider proper and acceptable."

Key Points Characteristics and effects of culture:

  • Culture differs according to place, time, community, and race and this is natural.
  • Everyone's life is influenced by the culture that surrounds them and adopts it as the same it is.
  • Culture can never be the result of any single person's initiative or endeavor nor can it be the consequence of any particular incident at any particular time.
  • It can be different from place to place, from conditions, language, traditions, etc.
  • childhood is the age in which children experience the difference between cultures, and also get how is the diverse culture make their life different from one another.
  • Thus by all these references, we can consider that the childhood is the age the at which girls have menarche, and people, community, and areas have different cultures, so it is possible that in childhood when a girl have menarche it can be celebrated or not as per the culture of the society.

Important Points Childhood refers to the period of the human lifespan, ranging from birth to puberty. It consists of many developmental stages. It is from two years to the age of 10 or 12 years. It consists of two stages i.e. Early & Late Childhood.

  • Early Childhood:
    • 'Early childhood' lies between the age of '2 to 7 years.
    • It is also known as the toy age, pre-gang age, curiosity age, exploratory age, etc. It is a very crucial period for the overall development of the child.
  • Later childhood: 
    • Later childhood is the time period from the age of '7 to 12 years.
    • The signs of puberty usually begin to appear in this stage. It is also known as elementary school-age, troublesome age, gang age, play age, etc.

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