With divorce rates and family breakdowns increasing globally, it is generally accepted that
families today are not as close as they used to be.
Discuss the causes of this problem and offer dome possible solutions to it.
Divorce and family breakdown were virtually unheard of just 100 years ago. Now,
however, almost half of all marriages fail. This phenomenon is symptomatic of the
growing distance between family members in modern society. In this essay, I intend to
explore the sources of this problem along with some possible solutions to it.
Chief among the causes of this problem is the modern lifestyle. Today’s parents have to
work harder than those of previous generations to support their families. Traditionally, one
parent assumed the role of breadwinner, while the other – typically the mother – acted as
the homemaker. Recently, though, double income families have become the norm.
Consequently, an increasing number of children now grow up in a parentless environment.
Little wonder, then, that they feel alienated. Another contributing factor is the passive and
solitary nature of many modern forms of entertainment.
In order to resolve this sense of alienation within families, I believe we must first address
its root causes. Perhaps the most effective method of doing this would be for governments
to offer financial incentives to parents who choose to remain at home and take care of their
families. Admittedly, such incentives would probably not fully compensate couples for lost
income; however, they would at least soften the hardship of living on a single income and
provide an alternative for parents who would rather remain at home but are unable to do so
because of financial constraints. One further measure would be to promote more
interactive leisure activities in the community through public education campaigns.
In conclusion, I believe that this is clearly a problem of such complexity that no solution is
likely in the short term. However, I believe that the measures outlined above would
constitute a good first step.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, however, if, so, then, while, at least, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1590.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40816326531 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83761548505 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 176.041082164 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.65306122449 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => 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: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.1754417724 49.4020404114 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5294117647 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2941176471 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.64705882353 7.06120827912 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 22.0 4.38176352705 502% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193734035799 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0568595514516 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060010912121 0.0667982634062 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0475135466493 0.151304729494 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0604666953444 0.056905535591 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.8 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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