The difference in age between parents and their children has increased compared to the past. Do the benefits of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Expert throughout the developing and developed world have debated whether the augmented difference in age between senior members and junior members in a family is beneficial or not. There are arguments from both sides. This essay will discuss both views and assert that its benefits outweigh its cost.
To begin with, there are a number of advantages for having more senior parents. The central reason behind this is twofold, firstly the ensuing family can enjoy a better living quality. In fact, compared to those young parents who have just worked for a couple of years prior to getting married, senior couples may accumulate significantly more resources, resulting in a higher quality of provisions such as house, food and education. This encourages a promising growth of children. Secondly, instead of prolonged hours of studying or working, senior couples are likely to have more time to play with children. For instance, by studying the figures from Hong Kong Population Survey, the majority of young couples have less interaction with their children, because of either pursuing a career or higher education.
Although there is a case for this change facilitating children's upbringing, the potential downside of this phenomenon cannot be ignored. The most obvious disadvantage is the presence of generation gap. While parents show less concerns on the daily routine of a child, they would rather pay rapt attention to the academic result of their offsprings owing to their extended horizons, and this might resent children. Meanwhile, children may estrange from their family, because their sharing on a dining table cannot engage their parents. This kind of interaction would deter the effectiveness of parenting and eventually end up with problems such as joining gangs and juvenile delinquency.
In conclusion, in spite of the possible drawbacks of damaging intimacy, given the current development of materialism, the benefits of nurture are more important and thus outweigh the cost. It is predicted that parenting skill will grow in importance in the foreseeable future.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 222, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun concerns is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, such as, in spite of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1765.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 327.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39755351682 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77541090046 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.605504587156 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.0162632009 49.4020404114 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.3125 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4375 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.875 7.06120827912 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272670151082 0.244688304435 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07380946391 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.045226658694 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138351087178 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0559513078292 0.056905535591 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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