Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?The extended family (grandparents, cousins ad uncles) is less important than it was in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answers.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
The extended family (grandparents, cousins ad uncles) is less important than it was in the past.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answers.

Back in my home country where I spent most of my childhood under the shadows of grandparents, uncles, aunts and other relatives is changed greatly that now where many do not even know who their extended family members are. Throughout my childhood, relatives have played an important part in bringing me up, that is being there when your parents are busy at work and enjoying time in family celebrations. Nowadays, things have changed as many choose to hire babysitters or do not really consider their distant relatives essential until some big occasion comes by.

When I was a child about the age of 6 to 9 years old, I have often seen my parents respect their parents to such an extent that they are part of every crucial decision being made. Keeping the name of a newly born to who is to marry who, every important decision has to be approved by my grandparents. And if they disapprove something then that is what must be done. Like my aunt who was getting married and she was in love with her college friend, my grandparents did not approve her to marry the one whom she loves, instead they chose someone in the family. And nobody objected their decision, including my aunt. Elders are considered to be knowledgeable than the others in the family and we remember one phrase repeated by all the relatives about them is that 'They know better'.

Extended family creates strong bond and keeps the family together. Back in my childhood, I have always been surrounded not only with my grandparents but also uncles, aunts and cousins. Whenever I had a birthday or any celebration we would go together to theme parks or picnics. My cousins and I always shared the same interest that is playing with dolls and we often visited each other for various reasons without any formal invitation. On the other hand, all the male cousins used to gather up every day to play cricket on the streets and spent quality time together. However, since I have grown up and moved to US, it feels like I have become distant from them. Not only because I have moved away but also when we all were living in the same country, I have noticed some disturbance among the family members that caused occasional rivalry among them. Since, my grandparents passed away, all the uncle and aunts started fighting for his will and which ended up in fights and complete separation between each other.

Nowadays, when I look around, I see very few families living as one joint family and most of them choose to live far to avoid superior control of elders on the family. There are many people who choose to live separately without the interference of elders, especially when they get married and the person coming into the family demands separation from the parents. This appears sad to me because I see many elder parents who spent their lives in old age homes or far apart from their loved ones because they are not wanted around by their own children. Their importance has shamefully decreased infront of their children. I always compare the time when I was young and spent my live in a joint family and respecting our elders and enjoyed with cousins with the time that we are living now, away from all the cousins and elders.

Children of today are being brought up to become independent from the age of 15, whereas, back when I was 15, I could not even imagine living alone without my parents. Decisions are independently being made without the consent of elders. I strongly believe that the importance of extended family and including respect of elders is less important now than it was in the past.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, really, so, then, whereas, apart from, as to, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 15.1003584229 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 13.8261648746 203% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.0286738351 236% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 78.0 43.0788530466 181% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 52.1666666667 169% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2951.0 1977.66487455 149% => OK
No of words: 630.0 407.700716846 155% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.68412698413 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00997013923 4.48103885553 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45236245948 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 299.0 212.727598566 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474603174603 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 932.4 618.680645161 151% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 49.7168623306 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.04 100.406767564 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2 20.6045352989 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.72 5.45110844103 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143657439614 0.236089414692 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0453810086674 0.076458572812 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543713721339 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0893526148906 0.150856017488 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0261667884796 0.0645574589148 41% => 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: 13.2 11.7677419355 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 58.1214874552 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.16 10.9000537634 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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