IELTS Writing Task 2 with sample answer.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
In many countries there has been an increase in social problems involving teenagers in recent years. Many people believe that this is due to modern lifestyles because parents spend more and more time at work and have less time to supervise their children.
To what extent do you believe this is true?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Sample Answer 1:
Modern lifestyle has changed many facets of life, particularly parenting. Parents are busy with their career and are no longer able to spend quality time in bringing up their offspring. Which by consequence, it has been seen that social issues pertaining to youngsters are being escalated lately in many countries.
To start with, increasing juvenile crime is a harsh reality in many societies. Teenagers are susceptible to the external influence, but the onus is on their parents to guide them in order to keep them on the right track. Without any shred of doubt, parents are the role model and emissary of light for the children. But regrettably, modern lifestyle refrains parents to accomplish their core duty of parenting. Due to the cut-throat competition and financial solvency for leading cozy life, both the parents engage in job, even in multifaceted career and work long hours. Consequently, parents considerably fail to provide the youngsters with moral education. As a result, teenagers often cannot discern the proper path of life.
On the same token, adolescents, absence of parents, can enjoy freedom of what they want to. And with the multitude opportunity of spending time, teenagers very often are exposed with many anti-social activities by bad companions. They even could involve in local gangs and can commit ruthless crimes. Moreover, parents’ absence can lead them into gloomy state. Thereby, teenagers may become addicted to psychoactive substances. They start using these drugs to alter their mood. This could result in many psychological disorders. In addition, youngsters may surf porn sites in absence of their parents that can cause moral degradation. This by consequence can lead them to committing sexual harassment.
All things considered, it seems reasonable to assume that all these behaviour of the adolescent stems from family context. In the consumer culture of modern epoch, parents are only pay attention to providing material necessities of their children. To do so, they involve in job, even in multifaceted career in order to keep their children happy materially and do not spend quality time on rearing them as a good citizen. Therefore, youngsters involve in many antisocial activities day by day.
Sample Answer 2:
Adolescence is a time period when physical, emotional, and behavioral changes occur. The adolescents due to these pubertal changes, suffers from emotional behavioral problems like identity crises, low self-esteem, anxiety, somatic complaints and phobias. At this stage the children suffers from identity crisis because of the double standards made by parents and society. I believe that parents’ lack of attention to their children due to the time they spend at work is an influential reason for teenage social problems.
The adolescent is a stage, which is very crucial to develop personality and identity of the child. As a child reaches to this stage of life, he comes across with the sudden and rapid changes in body and mind, which cause emotional disturbance. The child put his efforts to come out from theses emotional disturbances but the parents have a great role to play. If an adolescent behaves like a child he is criticized by his parents as, do not behave like a child, you are not a kid anymore. On the other hand if he behaves like an adult he is again criticized by them as, not take interest in adult’s stuff or do not interfere in decision making matters, go and play outside. These double standards confuse them to develop a proper identity. Parents these days are quite busy outside and keep their children to either grandparents or to a baby-sitter. This has a very negative consequence to a child’s psychology and the bond between the parents and children thus becomes weak.
These social problem faced by the child are made by modern life style as media played a vital role to make a so called life standards and the youth is mad to follow them. The parent-child relationship now a day is totally a learned behavior- parents have adopted modernization to deal their children by giving them space and money but do not spend quality time together, and the children also want freedom from their parents, their role models, and inspiration, are determined by the media.
However in the long run of modern life style, it is a healthy competition among societies, but it can cause alarming destruction in future for teenager as they are totally being ignored by their parents. There is need to psycho-educate parents that how does quality of time can control many issue in parent child relationships.
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