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In many countries today, people in cities either live alone or in small family units, rather than in large extended family groups. Is this a positive or negative trend?

#countries #people #cities #live #units #groups #trend
It is true that nowadays living alone or living
nuclear
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 families
have
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 been trendy
between
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 many
towns
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people
. In my
opinion
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this
 is
negative
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 trend. There are several reasons why I would argue that living in
a
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nuclear
families
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family
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have
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trend
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. Living in a nuclear family and growing up alone can have a negative effect on
children
's minds. Because in a nuclear family or
single parent
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, childcare becomes a stressful part of daily life.
Children
 who grow up with only their parents in a nuclear family without grandparents or aunts and uncles want to be alone after they finish
their
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school.
Therefore
,
children
 who grow up in
a nuclear families
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a nuclear family
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 become a little more
introvert
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 than
children
 who grow up in
an
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extended
family
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families
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.
On the other hand
. Perhaps living alone is become
a
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trendy
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 among
people
.
However
 it has
a
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big damage to
human's
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 health from the mental side
people
 who live alone have no one to talk
,
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therefore
 they cannot share their problems or discuss the events of their daily life. Humans who live alone tend to watch more TV, play video games and chat with friends online
due to
 the lack of
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contact with
people
 in the home. All of these can increase mental illness.
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 everything into
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account I believe that
people
 prefer to live in an extended family and worrying live in a nuclear family.
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