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 this phenomenon.
Firstly, the pressure of fierce competition is widely perceived as the main reason. Many sociological studies have shown that although it is invisible, with the growth of academic qualifications and stiff competition in working places, young people are afflicted with busy working schedules on every workday, leading to having less time for personal life, including having children. Secondly, another factor that has added fuel to the fire is the increasing development of modern technologies. According to reasearches, in the past, women chose to give birth early to solve the risk of decreased fertility and potential health problems to babies. Nowadays, couples can delay parenthood by using medical services with modern devices to spend time on careers and minimize health problems simultaneously. For example, couples are being parenthood at 20-30 year-old, which suitable for the wife’s health; however, due to the stiff competition, now couples are having children at over 35 years old.
In evaluating its impact, it is important to take potential consequences on family and society into account. From economic perspective, it would cause alarmingly impacts on the sustainability of macro-economic performances because of low fertility rates. For instance, according to the survey conducted by BBC News, low birth rates have been proportional to young labor crisis, seriously affecting 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 technological devices are the main reasons, which have negative influences 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 : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 24.0651302605 37% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1777.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 313.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.67731629393 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02863940685 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.623003194888 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 551.7 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => 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: 56.788364718 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.928571429 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3571428571 20.7667163134 108% => 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 : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.204422827092 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0575911648746 0.084324248473 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0347929106876 0.0667982634062 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111563348708 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0252397451623 0.056905535591 44% => 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: 16.5 13.0946893788 126% => 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: 15.96 12.4159519038 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.18 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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