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?

Nowadays, in many countries, urban citizens have tendency to stay single or in nuclear families, instead of living in extended family groups. Personally, I completely argue that this trend would bring negative influences on society.

Firstly, small family units mean less of family support in many situations and in some case, it can have some effect on young generations. Today, both of parents have occupations which leads to lack of childcare and parents have to look for babysitters or nannies instead of counting on grandparents. Nuclear families or single lifestyle suggest that friends, media and Internet become main influencer on behaviour especially on children. If youngster don’t have enough intimacy with other family members, it is likely linked to juvenile delinquency.

Furthermore, with the fact that less and less human interaction may cause psychological effects. The side effect of this lifestyle is that it is difficult to find someone to share problems and confide. It leads to over-using of TV, Internet and discourage real interaction. In the long term, people tend to have feeling of isolation from society and perhaps cause the increasing in depression or even suicide. This can be seen from Japanese case where more and more people choose and have to stay alone and separate from relatives and society that made Japan become one of the highest suicide rate countries in the world.

In conclusion, while many people would likely prefer live alone or in nuclear families, I believe that this trend may bring more deleterious effects in not only family but also society.

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Average: 6.7 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, may, so, while, in conclusion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 13.1623246493 30% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1354.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 257.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26848249027 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73699938797 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.583657587549 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 431.1 506.74238477 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.5820734136 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.833333333 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4166666667 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58333333333 7.06120827912 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => 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: 0.249354934575 0.244688304435 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.079903037502 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0699043639086 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164155334155 0.151304729494 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0642425765115 0.056905535591 113% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 78.4519038076 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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