Practice with these Opinion Essays
ARGUMENTATIVE TOPICS
- Advantages and disadvantages of being an only child.
- Advantages and disadvantages of being a working mother.
- Childhood is certainly not the happiest time of your life.
- Capital punishment is the only way to deter criminals.
- Examinations have a very bad influence on education.
- Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays.
- The space race is the world's biggest money waster.
- Pros and cons of living in a large modern city.
- Advertising performs a useful service to the community.
are
better than in the past? Why?
Nowadays everyone agrees that communication between the membe
rs of
the family has changed but, is it true?
On the one hand, relationships are better than in the pas
t because fifty
years ago Internet didn
’
t exist, for that reason, parents and children used to
spend more time together . Furthermore children were more respectfu
l with
their parents.
On the other hand, relationships are better now because there
are more topics to talk about such as: sex or policy. In additio
n, taboos have
disappeared. There is more confidence and tolerance on both
sides.
Moreover, parents are more understanding with their children.
As far as I
’
m concerned, most relationships between parents and
children are better than in the past despite the new technolog
y.
