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Nowadays there is an increase in social problems involving young people because more parents spent time at work than with their children. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

#people #parents #time #work #children
In recent years, people are worried about the youth's
behavior
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 while socializing and most people think it is due to the working
parents
 who can not spend much time with their
children
. Though there are controversies regarding the reasons
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why young generations are facing problems with their social life,
i
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 am not in
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 of making only
parents
 responsible for
such
 phenomena.
To begin
 with, Kids are now more exposed to
the
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devices like mobile, television, and
the
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computer from the very early stage of their life. Since those devices have so many attractive features, with
increased
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 level of accessibility
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children
 get easily addicted to
it
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 which
reduce
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 their social interactions.
Therefore
, even if one of their
parents
 is
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home
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the home
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all day,
children
 barely get in touch with them and rather stay busy with video games or other online sites.
Hence
 growing up with devices changes their lifestyle in a way that they become unable to interact socially. Another point worth mentioning is that
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most
families
 are now in
nuclear
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a nuclear
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 mode where
family
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 consists of only
parents
 and
childre
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children
 whereas, in previous times
families
 used to be extended with grad
parents
, uncles and aunts. In
such
 extended
families
,
Children
 used to grow up in a social environment and
thus
 had more morality towards elders, but in nuclear
families
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children
 are less likely to practice social norms and moralities which causes trouble
while
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 they step out of the
families
. In conclusion, the problem of young people
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socializing is something
that is
 impacted
from
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 several reasons rather than induced by
parents
 spending less time with their
children
.
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