The tradition that family gets together to eat meals is disappearing. What are the reasons? What are the impacts
In modern society, many families rarely have meals together with all the members gathering at the same time. This trend is caused by the fast-paced modern lifestyle, and it has several drawbacks.
There are various reasons that family members are frequently absent at family meals. First, men and women who are highly focused on their careers and on developing their professional networks have many work commitments. For example, the drinking culture in some Asian countries means that people often spend time in restaurants or clubs after work discussing their work, signing contracts or enhancing their business relationships. This relatively busy lifestyle does not allow them to have meals with their families. Moreover, because of family expectations, adolescents now have to study much more than before because they are concerned about their academic performance. In addition to the time spent on their official school homework, their parents also send them to extra classes in the evening or language classes in the weekend. As a result, they miss out on eating with their families.
As a consequence, there are several harmful effects, especially on teenagers, when family members do not frequently eat together. According to studies, young people who do not share meals with their families are likely to be depressed and experience bad relations with their parents and siblings as well as their friends. Furthermore, planning meals, preparing food and even washing up are things that these teens will not have a chance to experience with their families. In addition, busy people often rely on fast foods often eaten away from home. These foods are poor in nutrients and contain more fat and sugar which are responsible for a range of health issues such as obesity and heart disease.
In conclusion, many people nowadays often miss family meals where the whole family eats together. This is largely because of the modern busy lifestyle. And this way of life is negatively impacting both body and mind.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, if, moreover, so, well, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1691.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 324.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21913580247 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61214518531 2.80592935109 93% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586419753086 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 524.7 506.74238477 104% => 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: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.9045949106 49.4020404114 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4705882353 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0588235294 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.23529411765 7.06120827912 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.67935871743 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => 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: 0.116114575898 0.244688304435 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0446326463321 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548386435812 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0885284375431 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352627658751 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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