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Today parents spend little free time with their children. Why is it the case? Who are more affected: parents or children?

#parents #time #children #case
The amount of
time
parents
 allocate
for
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 their
children
 is relatively low nowadays.
This
 essay will
first
 outline the reasons for
this
 problem and discuss who
are
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is
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 more susceptible to its harms
To begin
 with, it is not uncommon that most
parents
 have a tendency to spend relatively more of their
time
on
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working so as to support their households,
obtain
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and obtain
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 luxury things, like expensive cars, multi-functional gadgets and admirable apartments than being around their
offsprings
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.
Consequently
, their
children
 are getting out of control, which may enable them to take up
,
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 or be addicted to harmful habits
such
 as smoking, drinking alcohol or gambling.
This
 might,in turn, cause serious consequences in their later life.
In other words
, I used to have a childhood friend, namely Sardor whose
parents
 got so obsessed with their business that they did not have any chance to set aside sufficient
time
 to spend with him. Having been on his own after school, he started drinking
such
 an excessive amount of alcohol that
parents
 of his are not currently able to abstain
him
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from that habit. Regarding the real victims of the problem, I,
however
, believe that both
parents
 and their
children
 are liable to suffer from it.
Moreover
, not giving enough attention to
the
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teenagers during their adolescence is likely to affect the family bonds between them, and
in addition
,
parents
 seriously can lose their
children
.
For example
, in some European
nations
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 since
parents
 are truly busy with their jobs, their offsprings
are
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tend to leave their households in search of a new life after reaching the age of 18.
As a result
, it seems that both mothers and fathers will find it difficult to thrive in their old age. In conclusion, obsession with work in pursuit of luxurious items and money causes
not
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them not
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 to provide adequate care as well as
time
 to their
offsprings
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offspring
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. As a consequence,
parents
 themselves are bound to be the sufferers of the negligence of the problem.
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