Here all the sample answer IELTS essays that I have written on the topic of family!
This includes essays related to children, husbands, wives, spouses, grandparents, work/life balance, houses, apartments, parents, childbirth, and more.
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IELTS Family Topics
Some believe that research on family history is a useful thing to do, while others disagree.
Discuss both sides and give your own opinion.
In marriages today, some argue that it is the responsibility of both spouses to earn a living for the family.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
More and more people today are moving away from where their friends and family live.
Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?
Some people believe that engaging in an active pastime does more to develop children’s life skills than time spent reading.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
In some countries, there has been an increase in the number of advertisements which try to persuade children to buy snacks, toys, and other goods. Parents often claim that these ads are unfair.
Discuss both views and give your opinion.
In many countries, children are becoming overweight and unhealthy. Some people think that the government has the responsibility to solve this problem.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Some believe that younger family members should be legally responsible for supporting older family members when they become physically, mentally and financially unable to look after themselves.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Today family members eat fewer meals together.
Why is this?
Is this a positive or negative trend?
Many parents encourage young people to leave home when they become older, while others think they should stay at home with the family.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Some people believe that allowing children to make their own choices on everyday matters (such as food, clothes and entertainment) is likely to result in a society of individuals who only think about their own wishes. Other people believe that it is important for children to make decisions about matters that affect them.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Many people think that it is better to get advice from old rather than young people.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Many parents today do not spend much time with their children.
Why is this?
Does this affect parents or children more?
In some cultures, children are often told that they can achieve anything if they try hard enough.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of giving children this message?
It is better for children if the whole family including aunts, uncles and so on are involved in a child’s upbringing, rather than just their parents.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
In some places, young people find it difficult to communicate with older people.
Why is this?
What are the solutions?
These days more fathers stay at home and take care of their children while mothers go out to work.
What could be the reasons for this? Is it a positive or negative development?
Some people believe that the experiences children have before they go to school will have the greatest effect on their future life. Others argue that experiences gained when they are teenagers have a bigger influence.
Discuss both views and give your own opinions.
It is sometimes suggested that primary schoolchildren should learn how to grow vegetables and keep animals.
Do you think that the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Parents should take courses in parenting in order to improve the lives of their children.
To what extent do you agree?
Many people who care for the elderly do not have enough time to look after them.
What are the problems related to this?
What are some possible solutions?
Some people believe that family is more important than friends.
To what extent do you agree and disagree?
Many people nowadays tend to marry and have children in their thirties rather than at a younger age.
Is this a positive or negative development?
Some people think parents are responsible for transporting their children to school. Others think it is the government’s responsibility.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Fewer and fewer children are willing to look after their parents as they get older these days.
Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?
All fathers should be entitled to time-off from work when their children are born.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Childhood obesity has become a serious problem in recent years.
What are the primary causes of this?
What measures should be taken to reduce childhood obesity?
Some people spend a lot of money celebrating personal family events, such as weddings and birthdays.
How important is it to celebrate such events?
Do you think people spend too much money on these events?
People nowadays tend to have children at older ages.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
In many countries, crimes rates amongst younger people has been rising.
Discuss the causes and solutions for this problem.
Some people think that children can learn about history by visiting museums, while others feel that there are better ways to learn about history.
Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Some people believe that children should do sports so that they will grow up as healthy adults, but others feel sports are just about enjoying yourself.
Discuss these both views and give your own opinion.
Some people think children should have the freedom to make mistakes, while other people believe that adults should prevent children from making mistakes.
Discuss both sides and give your opinion.
Children are now facing educational, social, and commercial pressures.
What are the causes of these pressures?
What measures can be taken to reduce them?
Some think that fathers should have time off from work after the birth of a child.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Because many children are not able to learn foreign languages, schools should not force them to learn foreign languages.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Many claim that the fast food industry had a negative effect on the environment, eating habits, and families.
To what extend do you agree or disagree?
Nowadays, families are not as close as in the past and a lot of people have become used to this.
Why is this happening?
Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the drawbacks?
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Some people believe that volunteer work should be a requirement for teenagers in high schools (for instance, working for a charity).
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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Many point out that voluntary experience should be an aspect of requirement for juveniles in high schools. From my personal intuition, I totally side with this recommendation as this encouragement may have influences in forming a responsible individual that serves a role for society, and directly contributes to the national status of living throughout a meaningful voluntary trip.
Volunteer work is one of many factors that may determine students to be a liable citizen. Setting out the voluntary criteria encourage students to indulge in more moral activities, as they would spend their constructive pastime for it, provided that the juveniles, at least, had the natural demand to successfully fulfill the academic profile, or moreover, wanted to recreate the affiliation with the miserable ones and reached the emotion of sympathy. As government or the school administrators may offer limited quantities of voluntary event due to the certain levels of accountability that comes with extra fee, students must be totally conscientious to acquire a good moral report. In Vietnam, students can be benefited when applying jobs, on the ground that most employers are fond of voluntary activists’ experiences and their decent behaviors.
Direct volunteer enrollment in school can directly help people. As most voluntary trips are
pay-free so it is highly recommended to many high schools, increase the potential of the upward of standard living, get rid of “child-labor” in many countries. Notwithstanding, as appreciate as these activities might be, safety of the schoolers is unpredictable, due to the low segments of economy people often reside at mountainous regions. However, the sum of myriad of small activist groups sometimes benefits more than a celebrity appeal to the crowds, intercept chances of fraud and waste money on an unknown or unreliable sources.
In conclusion, volunteer work should be a criterion in high schools’ process of learning, on the ground that it can be presumed as an intact way of educating citizens and a noticeable way to convey contribution towards their motherlands.