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

It said that ,nowadays, family

members

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less

time

together

while

having

meals

. The reasons why

this

happens is that they cannot manage

time

physically to have lunch or dinner together or there could be some issues between family

members

. The following essay points out the negative sides of not having food together and elaborates its reasons. To start with, regarding the reasons, family

members

do not choose to eat separately ,especially most of the

time

in contrast

to the common belief.

Parents

' persistent and irregular work hours lead to eating

meals

individually as family

members

. Because, when a parent works the night shift, it becomes impossible to be present at meal hours.

For instance

,

according to

the statistics, 60% of Turkish

families

could not meet at the dinner table as the

parents

had to work. At the same

time

, youngsters tend to have

meals

with peers, since to share common interests and have deep talks

while

having a meal.

Furthermore

, since

meals

are the most common

time

that

families

spend together,

parents

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

Moreover

, the

families

put up their barriers to stop communication when one of the

families

demands to spend

time

together.

For overcoming

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these issues,

families

must devise fresh strategies to get them to spend

time

at the table with them in order to solve these issues. In conclusion,

families

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

up

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this

, the governments can

also

force employees to arrange working hours for

parents

to create

families

with solid relations.