[IELTS] Influence on children when working in foreign countries

IELTS Writing Task 2

(Question)

Some people believe that parents moving to other countries for work will give benefits to children while other people believe that it will affect children’s development. Discuss both sides and give your opinion.

Planning

Benefits for children

1. Experience new cultures
2. Widen perspective - can understand diversity

Negative development

1. Unable to make friends - lack of communication due to language barrier
2. Different culture - foods are not suitable, cannot gain nutrition. Not eating
3. Discrimination - different race, alienate, unsocial

It is said that there will be advantageous when children live in foreign countries due to their parents’ work, whereas negative development can be experienced by their children when they are abroad as thought by other people. I steadfastly believe that residing in their home countries is beneficial compared to living in foreign countries.

A group of people think that it is beneficial for children to live abroad with their parents due to their parent’s work while others think that it causes negative development to children. I steadfastly believe that residing in their home countries is beneficial compared to living in foreign countries.

To begin with, there are two principal benefits for children to stay in foreign countries. First and foremost, experience of new cultures can improve the children’s perception of other nations. Since children can go through various kinds of traditions, they are able to understand cultural diversity. Secondly, perspective of viewing world is widened, which enables children to be creative. The reason for this is that children can be flexible in thinking a certain idea by undergoing different experience from home countries and foreign countries.

On the other hand, negative development can be yield due to the basis of three ideas. Firstly, children are unable to make close friends as there is a language barrier, which leads them not to communicate with peer groups. Moreover, owing to the different culture, providing children with suitable foods cannot be achieved because children cannot have the same opportunities to eat their local foods which they get used to eating. This can induce them to have biased diet causing deficiency in nutrition. The last reason is that there is high possibility of experiencing discrimination because of their race, so they are alienated from their peers, which causes antisocial behavior and juvenile delinquents.

In conclusion, although it can be seen that there are beneficial things when children dwell on foreign countries, I firmly believe that pessimistic aspects are dominant.

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