In some countries around the world men and women are having children at a later age than in the past. What are the reasons for this development? What are the effects on society and family life?
In contemporary society, couples are inclined to suspend parenthood and give birth to children later than people of previous generations did in the past. This essay will present an overview of causes and potential influences to it.
Firstly, it is worthy that the pressure of fierce competition is widely perceived as the main reason. Nowadays, many sociological studies have shown that although it is invisible, with the growth of academic qualifications and stiff competition at working places, young people are afflicted with busy working schedules on every workday, leading to have less time for personal life, including having children. Secondly, another factor that added fuel to the fire is the increasing development of medical services. According to researches, in the past couples chose to give birth early to solve the risk of decreased fertility and minimize health problems simultaneously. Nowadays, couples can delay parenthood and spend time on careers thanks to modern services of technological devices. For example, couples of previous generations are being parenthood at 20-30 years old, which suitable for wife's health; however, now people give birth at over 35 year-old to concentrate on career path.
In evaluating its impact, it is important to take potential consequences on society and family into account. From economic perspective, it would alarmingly cause influences on the sustainability of macro-economic performances because of the low fertility rates. For instance, according to the survey conducted by BBC News, the popularity of low birth rates have been proportional to the young labor crisis, affecting seriously economic growth. From the view of family unity, double income families where both parents are bread-winners are more increasingly popular, ideological conflicts and gap generation are common between parents and children. As a result, they seldom have bonding time to build good rapports.
In conclusion, fierce competition and modern technologies are the main reasons, which have chronic negative effects on society and family as mentioned above.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1782.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 317.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.6214511041 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02456711769 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.621451104101 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.1115035342 49.4020404114 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.285714286 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6428571429 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42857142857 7.06120827912 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191030556782 0.244688304435 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536676124477 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0376221137784 0.0667982634062 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109483852221 0.151304729494 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0137563328479 0.056905535591 24% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.0946893788 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 50.2224549098 64% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.61 12.4159519038 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.16 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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