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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is easier for parents to raise their children than 50 years ago.
时代在向前发展，科技在不断进步，社会也随着这些变化变得越来越好。
但好事相对的。
对于父母来说，当今的社会，可以利用的资源更多了，生活也逐渐变得越来越优质化，相比较过去，他们能更好地照顾自己的孩子。
对于父母来说，当今的社会，生活成本也逐渐的增高。现在的父母自然不可能再选择像50年前那样照顾自己的孩子，为了孩子更好的成长，他们在养育孩子上的花销也越来越大。生活成本的提高加剧了父母肩上的压力，从这一点来讲，似乎如今的父母抚养自己的孩子并不像50年前那样容易。
故而从正反两方面来讲，都能有大量的材料来支撑自己的论据，你只需要整理好自己的思路，一步步解答这道题目。
老师的思路是这样的。
Taking a panoramic picture of human evolution, family education has been playing a very important role, especially in modern days. When it comes to the question of whether or not raising kids is easier than before. I, personally, think that parenting has becoming more and more difficult based on the following reasons.
First off, with the advent of technological gadgets kids are now more susceptible to negative information on-line, making it tough for parents to monitor and guide their kids’ behavior and mindset. As we all know, with the appearance of smart phones, tablets and computer laptops, it is easier for people of all age groups, including adolescents and teenagers, to get access to all kinds of information. To be more specific, celebrities especially entertainers, like movies stars, sports giants and pop singers are such bad exemplars for kids since they are constantly involved in sex scandals, abusive use of drugs, random hookups, getting rehabilitation. Kids, who are in their formative years, are not immune to these negative influence. Therefore, it is becoming absolutely tough for parents to guide them and any negligence might lead to be catastrophic for the kid’s future development.
Additionally, parents are so overwhelmed with their career and they tend to be negligent about their kids. Kids, on the other hand, without guidance from their parents tend to have both psychological and physical problems. A recent study done by National Society of Developmental Psychology indicates that there is a positive correlation between the parents’ working time and the likelihood for kids to experience psychological and physical problems in their adolescence. Indeed, fathers and mothers are more stressful and inclined to work more hours than those who did a few decades ago, leaving them little time to hang out and caress their kids. To make matters worse, kids who might experience unparalleled peer pressure, bullying and other kinds of school cliche are not able to get appropriate and timely instruction and encouragement from their parents, increasing the risk of a series of developmental problems. For instance, they might get addicted to computer games, involve in early sex, and even have marijuana and drinking problems.
In conclusion, due to the susceptibility of kids when exposed to negative information on-line or else and the parents’ lack of time spent with their kids, it is getting more difficult to raise kids now and kids are inclined to have both psychological and physical problems in their formative years.