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Two children who are raised in separate countries may experience radically different lives. How can political stability economy, and the availability of resources affect the life of a child

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The difference in influencing factors between underdeveloped and developed countries can mean the difference between life and death. A child raised in a war-torn country is less likely to have access to resources such as education, health care, security, clean water, and sanitation. They are subject to unstable environments in which war, violence, familial death, corruption, and despair run rampant. Their most basic survival needs may not be met; if exposed to endemic disease, the likelihood that they will survive is substantially less than children in industrialized nations. On the other hand, a child of an industrialized nation is more likely to have adequate access to all the resources that meet their basic survival needs. They may even have access to luxuries. These children are more likely to enjoy compulsory education and routine health care. These children have a greater likelihood of surviving into adulthood because of their access to resources.

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