Today family members eat fewer meals together. Why is this? Is this a positive or negative trend?

Nowadays,

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meet around meal tables less and less. The long working

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of

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are one of the reasons for

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problem. I believe that

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trend has harmful effects on the relations of family members. Family members do not choose to eat separately intentionally most of the

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, as opposed to commonly believed.

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' long and irregular work

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cause

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not to spend

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eating

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together. When a parent works a night shift, it becomes impossible to arrange meal

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.

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, a study showed that 55% of British

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could not meet at the dinner table since one of the

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has to work.

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, contemporary teenagers resist quitting what they are doing and participating in their family

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. Since multiplayer computer games or series have hypnotizing effects on young people, it is hard to persuade them to sit with their

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.

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, when the

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insist on spending

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together, they raise their shields to cut all communication. To overcome these problems,

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have to find new ways to attract them to spend

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together around the table. The most crucial result of not meeting for

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is the decrease in family relations. Since

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are the most common

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that

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spend together, a decline in it results in the weakening of the connection of

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.

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, a study between Turkish

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showed that

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who spend more

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than average on

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together have better links between family members than

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who spend below average.

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should spend more effort meeting around tables to know their children better. In conclusion,

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should use every opportunity to have strong family ties. The uniting effect of the dinner table should not be underestimated. To end

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force employees to arrange working

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for

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to create

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with solid relations.