The tradition of families getting together to eat meals is disappearing. What are the reasons? What are the impacts?
In recent years, people have not maintained the custom of having family meals together. There are some reasons which can be put forward to explain this changing pattern of behaviour, followed by two significant impacts on family life and health.
The fact that family members no longer eat with each other can be attributable to two reasons. With a fast pace of modern life, family members separated during the day, with men, women, and children headed to different daytime destinations, which results in the availability in the family meal being unfeasible. Take boarding schools as a case in point, these schools, which provide education for pupils who live on the premises, require students to have lunch right at their campus, thus, children are not allowed to going home and eat meats with family. Another explanation for this changing pattern of behaviour is that leading a sedentary lifestyle, 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. In single-parent households, or in families with working mothers, under pressure of heavy workload, parents often order food outside from the home instead of going through a time – consuming process to prepare meals, and family members can eat anywhere they feel comfortable and spend screentime.
The consequences for family life and for children’s health are serious. From the perspective of family value, mealtimes are a time to share experience, give guidance and to make plans together, which is an essential factor in shaping children’s personality during their formative years. Without this routine, youngsters have more trouble with drugs and alcohol abuse, show lacklustre academic performance, and report a lack of empathy with their parents. In terms of children’s health, eating away from home lead children to have snacks, or to eat junk food at fast food chains. Health consequences such as obesity and hyperactivity often ensue 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, thus, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 41.998997996 143% => 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: 1889.0 1615.20841683 117% => OK
No of words: 362.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2182320442 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85674495326 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569060773481 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 580.5 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 0.809619238477 741% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.5726214646 49.4020404114 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.307692308 106.682146367 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8461538462 20.7667163134 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.15384615385 7.06120827912 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => 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: 0.158939886168 0.244688304435 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0679766382435 0.084324248473 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419267901105 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125794948765 0.151304729494 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0373462015167 0.056905535591 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 50.2224549098 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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