2013年3月24日托福独立写作题目：Do you agree or disagree with the following statement：It is easier for parents to raise children nowadays than 50 years ago. 现在养孩子比50年前容易。【重复20110925ML和20101106NA】

 

 

　　Raising children is definitely one of the most challenging things in the world. From the time babies are born, parents have the responsibility to properly feed and educate them. Considering every aspect of raising children, I firmly believe that it is much easier for parents to take care of children nowadays than 50 years ago.

 

　　First, compared with parents 50 years ago, parents nowadays have relatively easy access to information about how to raise a child. 50 years ago, books about raising a child are scarce and computers can only be found in government offices and big companies. However, as technology and book industry develop quickly, we can buy books, magazines and scan websites that provide comprehensive, practical and expert child health and parenting information and activities covering children of different ages. For example, my neighbor just gave birth to a baby and she did not know how to do baby massage. I searched on the internet and found tips about performing baby massage. Some articles even well-illustrated and are equipped with videos, which are more vivid and explicit than words. My neighbor quickly learned how to massage her baby.

 

　　Second, children are vulnerable to various diseases. In the past, many diseases were incurable and even mild diseases like the vitamine deficiency may cause sufferings. However, in the 21st century many diseases die out because of the advances in modern medicine. Besides, the environment nowadays are hygienic, which means that children are less likely to be attacked by infectious diseases.

 

　　Last but not least, with the development of economy, parents nowadays are more likely to raise children with both strong body and strong mind. In the past, children can hardly fill their bellies, let alone go to school to receive education. Now, things have changed completely. The living standard is much higher than that of 50 years ago, which means that parents now can not only supply their children with sufficient and nutritious food to eat, but also have abilities to provide them mental food. For example, my grandparents told me that many babies born in the 1960s were starve to death because of food scarcity. Although parents were working very hard, they still could not earn enough money to buy daily necessities.

 

　　From the above analysis, I believe that abundant information, coupled with advanced modern medicine and prosperous economy, make it easier for parents nowadays to bring up children.(400字）

 

 

　　According to the question whether rising children easier nowadays than 50 years ago, quite a few would deem that the answer to the question above is positive, since they think in the 21 century, with the rapid development of the society, there have more high technologies can make parents taking care of their children become much more convenient. But others, by contrast, deny that rising children become easier recently, and that is also my point.  Because of there have many reasons may cause rising a child in 21 century can't be an easy task, especially in modern China. Here are three conspicuous aspects as follows.

 

　　Firstly, the most obvious problem is the generation gap become wider and deeper between children and their parents, for the rapid development on society, since and technology, education style, and so on so forth. For instance, "thanks to" the TV and internet, many children may feel addicted in front of TV or PC, like a couch potato, instead of sit with their parents and chat with them. So that many cause the communication between family members less inevitably. And which will never happened 50 years ago

 

　　Besides, the children and parents nowadays have to burden more pressure than before as the result of fierce competition in the new China. As we all knew, China not only famous for her 5 thousands years’ history, but also her great amount of population. Which make the competition between young men very fierce.  If you want to win in the war, you have to be a good student, a good child, an good employee, etc. That makes the requirement on each individual become higher, so as parents who don't want their children fail, they have to raise them or educate them with highly attention. This kind of attention will be very different from 50 years ago.

 

　　Last but not the least, the situation of spoiled children could be widely seen in China. Because of the Chinese family plan, which means each family could only have one child. Although from some aspects this policy can be understood, we can not deny this policy also have its negative impacts, like if a family only have one child, parents or even grandparents' attention will all focus on the child, that will produce many spoiled children. And how to deal with this kink of children is a hard question for parents.

 

　　In a word, rising children in 21 century in China is more difficult than 50 years before.