The tradition that the family gets together to eat meals is disappearing.
What are the reasons? What are the impacts?
It is true that the traditional family mealtime is becoming a thing of the past. There are
some reasons which can be put forward to explain this changing pattern of behaviour,
and there are significant impacts on family life and health.
There are two obvious reasons why families no longer share mealtimes as they used to do
in the past. Firstly, children are often too impatient to eat at the table, and parents
sometimes allow them to have their meal in front of the TV or sitting in front of the
computer. Secondly, the close-knit family is disappearing in the face of economic
pressures. In single-parent households, or in families with working mothers, it can be
almost impossible to arrange regular times for meals when all the family is together.
The consequences for family life and for children’s health are serious. From the
perspective of the family, meals taken together are an important feature of a stable family
background. This stability of family routine is a essential factor in shaping children’s
personality during their formative years. Family mealtimes are a time to share news,
give guidance and to make plans together. In terms of children’s health, family meals
were an opportunity to provide all the family members with a healthier diet, based on
wholesome home-made food. Without this routine, children are sometimes left to have
snacks, or to eat junk food at fast food chains. Health consequences such as obesity and
hyperactivity often result when youngsters fail to eat a balanced diet, such as used to
be provided at family mealtimes.
In conclusion, some reasons can be identified for the decline in shared family meals and
the impacts are overwhelmingly negative.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 12, column 49, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.3376753507 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1471.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 281.0 315.596192385 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23487544484 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98489334445 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 176.041082164 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540925266904 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 459.0 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.9005899654 49.4020404114 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.071428571 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0714285714 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 21.0 4.38176352705 479% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.228370717256 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0836574903896 0.084324248473 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0406101760814 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0707484133385 0.151304729494 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040547778962 0.056905535591 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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