In many parts of the world, families were larger in the past because people had more children. Do you think there were more advantages or disadvantages to being part of a large family in the past?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience.
In recent years, family unit has shrunken on account of fewer kids in a household, whereas people in the past experienced merits of being a member of a big family. While children in those families may had some drawbacks, they indeed benefitted both as a child and an adult.
Having more siblings with different talents and abilities, which can support other siblings, is a golden opportunity of a one’s life. For instance, someone can help youngers with Science subjects, while another can help with Arts, thereby offering a greater chance to younger one to excel in both fields. This is supported by a recent study conducted at Colombo University, in which they claim that the academic performances of adults who grew up in large families are much higher than those who were born in smaller families. In addition to the academic support, these children took more responsibilities, such as looking after little brothers/ sisters and doing household work, whereby they became more responsible in their adulthood than children of smaller families. So, it gave them a chance to maintain a house while performing tasks at a professional level; hence, they experienced a balanced life.
However some may argue that kids in bigger families were economically disadvantaged due to large number of households. In contrast to these days, human life was simpler in the past, where people enjoyed growing crops and raising livestock for their needs, and they therefore lived without struggling to make ends meet. So I personally do not believe they faced financial problems. What made things better for them was that they were highly likely to live in extended families rather than nuclear families; it therefore ensured them to grow up with moral values such as sharing and caring for others, what made them adults who have helping behaviors.
In conclusion, advantages of being surrounded by a lot of brothers and sisters far out weighted than disadvantages in the past.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 106, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experienced'.
Suggestion: experienced
...s in a household, whereas people in the past experienced merits of being a member of a big famil...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...e, they experienced a balanced life. However some may argue that kids in bigger fami...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, look, may, so, therefore, whereas, while, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, in contrast to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => 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: 1652.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 322.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13043478261 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74459673434 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.624223602484 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 509.4 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => 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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.0191539254 49.4020404114 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.666666667 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8333333333 20.7667163134 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6666666667 7.06120827912 165% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202777129014 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0728152833666 0.084324248473 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0436891816041 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127772144816 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0190971413419 0.056905535591 34% => 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: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.