In many countries today, people in cities either live alone or in small family units, rather than in large, extended family groups. Is this a positive or negative trend?
In many parts of the world, notably in metropolis areas, there has been a shift from living in large families towards small family units or even alone. As far as I am concerned, this trend is a negative one.
Firstly, people living in small family units enjoy less family support than those sharing the same roof with their extended family members. In the latter pattern of family, the older generations can help to ease the burden of childcare while working parents go out to work. Thus, they are not likely to hire babysitters or nannies like many parents in smaller homes do. This, in turn, could immensely alleviate the financial burden that they are bearing on shoulders. Secondly, the absence of grandparents or other relatives as role models could negatively affect the children. This leads to the fact that television and the Internet become the dominant influences on children’s behavior. Though these sources of impact may largely positively contribute to the attitude and behavior of children, they may well too variegated in terms of steering children’s perspectives. Owning to their impressionable age, children still do not have the capability to distinguish the rights from wrongs. For example, they may perceive violence as acceptable for it is still portrayed and endorsed in various movies.
On the other hand, the trend towards smaller family units could bring along with them the psychological effects of less human interaction. Given the paucity of free time that working parents spend with their children, passive distractions, such as TVs, increasingly come into domination of a child’s normal day. This could, in the long term, detrimentally affect them, both mentally and physically. Moreover, the lack of real interaction between each other make either parents or children find themselves isolated and alienated that may contribute to worsening their quality of life.
In conclusion, living alone or in nuclear families could bring adverse effects to a person’s life quality. The lack of childcare help and of communication between people is the main drawbacks of this change of living pattern.
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...backs of this change of living pattern.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1808.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 340.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31764705882 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29407602571 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88288710537 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602941176471 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 554.4 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.2937645023 49.4020404114 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.352941176 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.35294117647 7.06120827912 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.228787501055 0.244688304435 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0682090882134 0.084324248473 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0797501563588 0.0667982634062 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158080675631 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677870637631 0.056905535591 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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