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IELTS Essay: Although families have influence on a children’s development, factors outside...

Prompt

Although families have influence on a children’s development, factors outside the home play a bigger part in their lives nowadays. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

#child development#parental influence#environmental factors#peer effects#socialization

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Band 7 → 9 — Band 7 acknowledges competing factors; Band 9 shows that the answer depends on age, SES, and what outcome is measured—family effects diminish with age while peer/societal effects grow.

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Key concepts in this essay

Developmental stages and critical periods
Epigenetics and gene-environment interaction
Peer effects, school quality, and institutional influence
SES and structural inequality effects
Resilience and compensatory mechanisms

Pitfalls the model essay avoids

Conflating 'influence' with 'determining factor' without establishing causation
Treating external factors as monolithic (peers, school, media are not equivalent)
Failing to examine age-dependent effects (family is strongest early, peers dominate adolescence)

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