The extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles) is less important now that it was in the past.
It has long been a hot controversy among contemporary scientists that the extended family is losing its importance by the passage of time. As far as I am concerned, answering to this question is imperative as it deals with the family values. After serious consideration, I think the extended family was more important in the past compared to now.
The first reason that I should mention is that earlier generations had more direct interactions with each other due to the lack of telecommunication technologies. This direct communication caused people to be closer to each other so the extended family was more important. Nowadays, cell phones and television are very common tools for every home. So, in modern days, people use their mobile when they want to talk to their extended family via their modern tools. For instance, I remember when I was a kid, mobile was not prevalent like today so we were talking to each other closely. This was the reason that uncles and aunts were more important than today, because we were talking to them without e-mails or mobile applications like Telegram.
The second reason for my propensity is that the value of the family is decreasing because of the globalization. For example, talking and seeing the extended family regularly was one of the most important values of my culture. Today in my country, people are not talking to their cousins often, because they think it is not necessary anymore to have relation with them. The main reason for this change in cultural values is globalization. According to a research which was conducted by one of the most reputable universities in my country globalization is decreasing the values of the family. A prime example from my own experience may shed some light to this point. My father was a family oriented person, therefore the family including grandparents had an important role in his decisions. On the contrary, I do not think grandparents are important for my decisions making because of the new cultures that I am experiencing which do not have a great value for the extended family.
Last but not least, people prefer to care about their close family rather than the extended family because they cannot support cousins or uncles because often hard financial situations they are facing in their own life. In the past, families were more helpful to each other compared to modern families. I remember that when my uncle had some kind of problems the whole family helped him immediately. However, my generation seems to care just about their close family.
To conclude considering the above reasons, the importance of family is not like before for some aforementioned reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, for example, for instance, i think, kind of, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 15.1003584229 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2223.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 446.0 407.700716846 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98430493274 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8190954866 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 212.727598566 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479820627803 0.524837075471 91% => OK
syllable_count: 724.5 618.680645161 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.994623655914 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.4984973411 48.9658058833 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.045454545 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2727272727 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13636363636 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267715438738 0.236089414692 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0855242674945 0.076458572812 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0831205872459 0.0737576698707 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161992316752 0.150856017488 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0690977539723 0.0645574589148 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 86.8835125448 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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