In many countries today, people in cities either live alone or in small family units, rather than in large, extended family groups. Is this a positive or negative trend?

Nowadays, there is a global trend among city dwellers to live alone or with immediate family. In my opinion, this trend has more disadvantages than advantages because the elderly feel abundant and lonely as well as children do not see a good example of family bonds.

First, the resent trend of living by small groups of immediate families, which replaced the living style of our grandparents, can be considered as negative development because the elderly after certain age are left behind. They are forced to live in elderly houses that obviously cannot replace a family. Even though somebody can argue that they have professional care in the face of nurses and communication among the peers, still they do not have any of family members surrounding them. As a result, old people feel lonely and abundant ad their children are not able to visit them on daily basis.

Meanwhile, living in a large house with children and grandchildren brings them sense of joy and happiness. In addition, the older generation can help to up bring the youngsters while their parents are hectic at work. Living with the older members of the family would teach children compassion and respect to the elderly. As well as this, extended members of a family would be able help each other with house chores and taking care of children. It is understood that this way of life help us to strengthen family ties, which are rare nowadays. To illustrate, my mother grew up in a large family, where everyone tend to help each other. As a result, all member of her family have close bond with each other and they still stay in touch.

In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that living separately from the family or having small family may look appealing from the first glance, I think that it is negative trend, which is more harmful than beneficial.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, look, may, so, still, then, well, while, i think, in addition, in conclusion, as a result, as well as, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1519.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82222222222 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5438656027 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546031746032 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 480.6 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.517277896 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.5 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.07142857143 7.06120827912 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235661453661 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.080203705049 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596050953273 0.0667982634062 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161050493542 0.151304729494 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454312344265 0.056905535591 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.4159519038 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.58950901804 90% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 78.4519038076 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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