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?
Many citizens these days prefer living in small families or in one-person households to living in nuclear families. Owing to its impact on children development and mental health, I believe this is a negative trend.
On the one hand, as families are getting smaller, children development is negatively affected. In fact, childcare nowadays is prohibitive and it has placed a burden on parents. Those parents have to spend more time working to cover the costs of raising progeny. Without support from grandparents, aunts or uncles, children are usually left alone with smartphones, tablets. These devices have been linked with increasing risk of psychological and behavioural problems during their formative years. What is more, reducing interaction with adult family members also deprives kids of the abilities to share and empathise with the others. This leads to poor interpersonal skills and it has a negative impact on children development in the long term.
On the other hand, the loneliness of one-person households has a detrimental effect on the mental health of adults. People who live alone can not cannot/might not/fail to share or discuss the highs and lows of daily life with their family members. The paucity of human contact puts more pressure on their stressful life. Consequently, those have to replace the desolation with passive distractions such as televisions, video games, or online chat room. This type of existence is associated with boredom, feeling of isolation, or even alienation. Researches have shown that isolation is a major factor influencing the incidence of mental illnesses.
In conclusion, one-person households and smaller families have a harmful effect on children as well as adults. Thus, the tendency to choose this lifestyle is ultimately a negative development.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, if, so, thus, well, in conclusion, in fact, such as, as well as, what is more, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1528.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 282.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41843971631 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95526264228 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602836879433 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 483.3 506.74238477 95% => 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: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 18.7066222569 49.4020404114 38% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 89.8823529412 106.682146367 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5882352941 20.7667163134 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.82352941176 7.06120827912 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => 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: 0.173030652801 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525825114523 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0577998066849 0.0667982634062 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124607214754 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0607305032114 0.056905535591 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 50.2224549098 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.86 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.53 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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