People in many countries are spending less time with their family. What are the reasons, and effects of this?
It is true that modern family members are spending less time for each other. There are several reasons for this and repercussions it may cause. This trend could be attributed to the increasing workload of parents. Although people are having more labor-saving devices, the amount of work of which they are in charge has become heavier. Overtime working or weekend shifts now is being a compulsory part of many people’s job and more people are hired on the basis that they’re willing to work at weekends. Therefore, work commitment means that they can’t afford much quality time for their offspring. Technological gadgets could be another prime culprit for reduced family time. Ironically, people might sit together as part of their family routine but they’re mostly paying attention to smartphones or television. This shouldn’t be defined as truly family gatherings because there is no genuine interaction and sharing. Having less time for family gatherings could have detrimental impacts on people’s quality of life. Firstly, less interaction could weaken the bonds between children and their parents. As children grow up, they have developed different preferences and standpoints. Given less opportunity to express these changes, children are more likely to be misunderstood as their parents will keep treating them as before. As a result, they no longer want to confide things in their parents or shy away from talking to them. Secondly, children’s life can suffer if there’s not enough family time for them. Without getting due parental attention, children are more likely to make ill-informed decisions which can put them into trouble. In fact, many anti-social teenagers are often reported to have absent parents or live far away from home.
In conclusion, tight working schedules of parents and technology are the main reasons why family time is now reduced. This trend could lead to many adverse effects on both parents and children.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, in conclusion, in fact, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1676.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 310.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4064516129 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88127905463 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590322580645 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 510.3 506.74238477 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.6642615324 49.4020404114 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.2105263158 106.682146367 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3157894737 20.7667163134 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.78947368421 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 2.0 4.38176352705 46% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192259947399 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643813005275 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419089204082 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15095843305 0.151304729494 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0238625629449 0.056905535591 42% => 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: 12.2 13.0946893788 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.8 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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