Plan: Devote/ allocate time

Parents are having less time with their children.

What are the causes and possible effects?

Plan:

Devote/ allocate time

Shared time

Family leaders

Family time

Causes:

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  Workload  nine-to-five jobs – dual-income families – (both parents are breadwinners) – secure and support their family financially, to meet their basic needs, make ends meet
  
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  Exhausted – ex: playing with their kids/ asking about their studies/ plans for the future – failure; sleep or virtual life
  

Effects:

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  Harm family bonds  children feel neglected – no affection / feel resentment towards their parents – in the long term, children do the same for their parents-
  
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  Children may suffer from psycholgical trauma – seek affection from parents but no reply –behavioural issues – get rid of trauma  engage in criminal networks, trauncy.
  

Children are generally keen to spend their most time with their parents, especially younger ones. Despite this, most ignorant parents are devoting less time to their kids. This issue can be attributed to several factors, but sadly the consequences might be ‘catastrophically’ problematic.

Clearly, few reasons are available behind the lack of shared time between a parent and a child. The first one is associated with parents’ longer working hours. These days, most families are dual-income, and both breadwinners are often having nine-to-five jobs in order to support and secure their family members financially and meet their basic needs. This unfortuantely leaves almost no time for their children. Another root cause, linked to the first, is that after working so long, parents obviously get exhausted. Therefore, it is quite challenging for them to make time for their child, playing with him or asking about his daily life and future plans instead of leaving their ‘soft’ bed with ‘smooth pillows’. Possibly, these factors can explain this problem to some extent.

Sadly, impacts of devoting less time to children can be rather troublesome. In the case of families, there is a potential that family bonds can be harmed considerably. When children seek affection from their parents, but are let down, they tend to feel neglected or, in some worse scenarios, such youngsters grow up with resentment towards their parents in their heart. This may force them to do the same when they become adults while their parents are grown-ups. Furthermore, those children might tend to suffer from psycholgical truama, which can be hard for them to shoulder. Consequently, seeking pleasure, they may even engage in criminal networks, or get used to anti-social behaviour and trauncy. These are some of the possible repurcussions.

In conclusion, recently, children have been receiving less attention from their parents. Their increased workload and potential exhaustion are to blame for this ever-increasing trend. However, I wholeheartedly advise that this should stop, since both the families and the kids are going to be affected seriously.

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