Today, more and more parents depend on their children's grandparents for childcare. Do you think this is a positive or negative trend?
Long working hours and heavy financial burdens are pushing mothers and fathers in modern society to leave their kids under the care of grandparents. Although parenthood is important in children’s growth and they do need parental care and guide, I still believe that there are many advantages for grandparents to take a part in childcare.
We have to admit the necessity for relying on the old generation for childcare in most families. Young parents are usually faced with heavy pressures from work, thus it is unrealistic for them to take good care of the kid without any help. It is neither economic for them to quit the job and become a housewife or a househusband -- this will further add to the financial burdens of the family. Therefore, grandparents become the best babysitters.
More importantly, it is undoubted that both grandchildren and grandparents will benefit from it. Young kids can be looked after carefully without extra costs. Meanwhile, retired people can realize more values and become less lonely by taking care of kids. This is also beneficial on a social stage -- there will be less empty nest elderly, thus making the whole society more harmonious.
However, that is not to say we should underestimate the importance of parental care in bringing up a child. Admittedly, parents should also participate in children’s growth and inculcate them with the latest and mainstream value in modern society. Nevertheless, regarding the fact that most of them still have to work, aid from the old generation is also necessary.
In summary, I personally believe that it is necessary and beneficial for grandparents to shoulder the responsibility of childcare. In the mean time, parents’ function should never be replaced. Only through the cooperation of both parents and grandparents can we ensure the kids a healthy and happy childhood.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'nevertheless', 'regarding', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'thus', 'while', 'in summary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.210526315789 0.247107183377 85% => OK
Verbs: 0.140350877193 0.155533422707 90% => OK
Adjectives: 0.111111111111 0.0946595960268 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0730994152047 0.0501214627716 146% => OK
Pronouns: 0.046783625731 0.0437548338989 107% => OK
Prepositions: 0.119883040936 0.122226691241 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0263157894737 0.0403226058552 65% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.06347079908 2.80594681477 109% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0263157894737 0.0326793684256 81% => OK
Particles: 0.00292397660819 0.00163938923432 178% => OK
Determiners: 0.0847953216374 0.0861772015684 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0263157894737 0.021408717616 123% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0 0.011925033212 0% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1873.0 1933.35771543 97% => OK
No of words: 303.0 316.048096192 96% => OK
Chars per words: 6.18151815182 6.12580529183 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.20517956788 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.356435643564 0.374742101984 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.283828382838 0.28420135186 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.201320132013 0.203846283523 99% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.16501650165 0.137316102897 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06347079908 2.80594681477 109% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.037074148 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544554455446 0.56093040696 97% => OK
Word variations: 56.5228310982 60.7387585426 93% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0891783567 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.9375 20.7743622355 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.2902793459 49.517814964 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.0625 127.492653851 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9375 20.7743622355 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.75 0.814263465372 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38877755511 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 47.3203382838 49.1944974215 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.37078651685 1.69124875643 81% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222771855143 0.332605444948 67% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.103976435508 0.102741220458 101% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0533872810813 0.0668466124924 80% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.564584340591 0.534860350844 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.121735199797 0.148594505496 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.088390857599 0.134430193775 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489902054356 0.0742795772207 66% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.245961506507 0.324371583561 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0962089053167 0.0638462369009 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143997614551 0.228012699653 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0365498140594 0.058150111329 63% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.68436873747 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.41683366733 59% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 5.90881763527 135% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 2.5751503006 39% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 1.9629258517 51% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 10.4468937876 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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