Task 2 More and more people these days work harder and longer hours and have no time for family and friends. What are the causes in your opinion for this? How is it affecting family life in the society?

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Nowadays, families spend less time compared with past times. Obviously, it has
effect
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on people's mentality, health and negative influence during
upbringing
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a
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child. All these issues are caused by
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the competitive
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market where almost everyone
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to give their best by working longer and harder.
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a
result
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our society suffers from several problems. Working for longer hours stimulates several deceases, including cancer, obesity, depression and so on. Competition
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the
work place
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workplace
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can add another pressure on employees. A good example can be
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research carried out by US scientists at Pensilvenya University which says:
large
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amount of people
are died
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from heavy
workload
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,
heart
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and heart
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decease
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disease
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have
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been
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doubled over 2 decades. Another problem is it not only affects people`s health but other social aspects of life too.
By abandoning
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their children in
kindergardens
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kindergartens
kindergarten
from their early years and
lack
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the lack
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of conversation between parents and their offspring
caused
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dramatic
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a dramatic
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effect on
mentality
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the mentality
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of
generation
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the generation
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. It led to depression from
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a young
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age.
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not being able to socialize properly with others because of
lack
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a lack
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of
practices
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practice
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with lifelong mentors (parents).
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, if adults continue working on
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regime
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for a long time it will fuel other bigger problems.
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, it will deteriorate social relations which
is
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essential parts of our life.
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