Some people think that the main factors influencing a child’s development these days are things such as television, friends, and music. Others believe that the family still remains more important. Discuss both opinions and give your opinion.

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In
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current world, bringing up a child is a huge responsibility.
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some people believe that family has the main role, I side with those who think there are other important contributing
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. On the one hand, it could be argued that
children
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's development could be hugely affected by parents. The favours of
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idea claim that
children
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spend lots of their lives at
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with family members, observing their behaviours, listening to how they communicate with each other, and how they respect others.
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,
children
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who do not have parents and have to live in a foster
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could have many emotional problems and their personalities would be completely different which shows how family has a huge role in
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's development. Another reason is the pure love
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hidden in parents' actions.
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passion affects our subconscious and changes our characters. Back to the earlier example, the foster kids might see or hear some kind gestures or words, but they do not feel it, and most of the
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they complain of lack of affection because the source of that behaviour is not true passion.
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the families' affections could change the
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's personalities.
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, I side with those who believe that other
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, outside of the
home
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, have more effects on
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growth. It is a fact that our era is different from the earlier centuries. Today everybody, including
children
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, has a smartphone or laptop which
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keeps
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them occupied.
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, my
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after coming
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, just asks for some food, and
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he goes to his room and talks and plays video games on the computer. There is not any
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for us to chat and communicate about different subjects.
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, friends can affect each other very easily. Usually,
children
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mimic the behaviours of friends that they admire, even if it is a negative one,
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as smoking. To summarize, the family can impact
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's personalities
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spending
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and their pure love for their
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, but other
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have more effects since technology
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taken more
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for
children
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with endless available information on it.
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, on balance, I believe
children
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's development is determined by outside
factors
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.
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