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It is more important to have a good family than to have good friends. Family can always compensate for absence of friendship To what extent do you agree or disagree

#friends #absence #friendship
Although
,
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 many people believe that having
friends
 do not add an advantage as
compare
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 to a family which is convincing, I think in a reverse manner and disagree with the given statement. My inclination is justified in the ensuing paragraphs. Out of all the arguments of
friends
 importance over family, the strongest one to prove my view is a
friend
 would help you in each and every situation where parents can't able to help.
This
 is to say some situations in the
life
 of a person could not be shared with their family
members
 as they would take more tension and would affect their health. A good example of
this
 is a pupil
loves
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 someone but she does not love her at all in
this
 phase a person could not go and ask for the help of father or brother at that time a
friend
 who plays a bigger role and in
this
 fast pace
life
friend
 would solve the problem faster than family
members
 as we spent more time with them and they know what step to be taken
next
 whereas parents would have a mentality to
first
 blame their child and put whole thin in a dig. The other reason is a
friend
 would give some help when you are in dilemma to take any decision when you are adult, parents
also
 could help in
this
 but they don't know sometimes that what his son or daughter wants and they take wrong decision while colleges know how to handle it.
However
, I would not overlook the other side too.
To begin
 with, in childhood family
members
 are the only way to
ge
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get
 out of any problem as at that time no one has a
friend
 that has been gone through each phase and is mature enough to fight with it.
Also
, In
this
 ,era no one gives financial help to anyone only family
members
 would help when you have some economic problems.
Thus
, to wrap up the discussion, it can be said that despite some benefits of family relationship , my reasons that
friends
 would never have a
second
 thought and they give their hand in any phase of
life
. Prefer
friends
 over family
members
 at some stage of
life
.
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