今日托福写作话题：
Young people of today are less dependent on their parents than those in the past
常理上，人们预想，随着社会的发展，年轻人会更独立自主。可不幸的是，当下的年轻人却越来越依赖父母。这虽是不幸，却是不争的事实。
It has been expected that young people would be less dependent on parents. However, unfortunately, young people of today are more dependent on parents than before. It seems like a curse, but sadly it is the truth.
首先，年轻人在经济上更依赖父母。社会的车轮滚滚向前，人们的生活没有变好反而更糟。为了生活，人们必须付出更多。为了支付各种生活帐单，青年人感到筋疲力尽，甚至绝望。比如，在中国上海这样的大城市，人们至少需要花费50万美元才够买房买车，结婚生子。试想，有多少20出头的年轻人手头握有如此巨额的存款？对于大多数人而言，这是个天文数字。别无他法，他们只能选择做“啃老族”。没有父母的帮助，几乎没有年轻人能在大城市里生活下去。而在过去，生活虽然简单，成本却很低。人们大概只需工作5年，便能住得起房子，过得上享受的生活。过去买房子，结婚和养孩子的成本也比现在低得多。
Firstly, young people depend more on parents economically. The progress of society has not made life any easier but tougher. People need to pay more for their survival. The young are exhausted and even despaired by those sundry bills. For example, a young person in Shanghai, a big city of China, needs half a million dollars to buy an apartment and automobile, to get married and rare a child. How many people who are in their early 20s can have half a million dollars deposits in their accounts? For the majority, this sum is astronomical. Without any alternative, they have to turn to elderly parents for support. As a matter of fact, no young people can survive in a big city without the aid from their parents. By contrast, in the past, though simple, life cost much less. Averagely, people needed to work five years to establish a family and lead a decent life. The cost of the past for buying an apartment, affording a marriage, and rearing a child was negligible when compared with that of today.
其次，年轻人在家庭生活上更加依赖父母。一方面，他们整天埋头工作，或沉迷于一些爱好，比如网络游戏，以至于忽视了自己的恋爱和婚姻等人生大事。家长们着急不堪，只能越俎代庖。这就是为什么，在中国通常参加相亲大会的都是父辈或祖辈。他们互相吹嘘着自己的孩子，渴望在婚姻中给孩子们提供巨大帮助。另一方面，大部分年轻人结婚生子后，并没有精力和耐心照看孩子。他们更愿意外出工作，或迫于生活外出打拼，以支付昂贵的生活开销。于是，父母们就自然而然地成为了保姆和仆人。要是没有父母的帮助，要么夫妻双方中任一方在家照看孩子，要么花钱请专业保姆，而后者的费用也不是一般家庭所能承受的。
Secondly, young people depend more on parents in life. On the one hand, the young are so buried in work or obsessed with their hobbies, like computer games or online chats, that they even ignore the big affairs in their life, such as dating girls or getting married. The parents, worried and desperate, have to come up to help. That is why in the speed-dating programs or speed-dating fairs, parents and even grandparents crowd the place, describing and even boasting the virtues of their children in the hope of making some contribution to their children’s marriage. On the other hand, the young have neither time nor patience to take care of the newly born babies. They are more willing to work in offices, or forced to work as a horse in order to pay the family bills. Naturally, parents become baby-sitters, cooks or housemaids. Without the support from parents, one of the couple has to stay home baby-sitting. As an alternative, the couple needs to hire a baby-sitter, which is always high-paid and not affordable for every common family.

综上所述，我必须重申，如今的年轻人比过去的年轻人更依赖于父母，经济上如此，生活中也如此。他们所面临的巨大生活压力使得他们不得不向父母求助。似乎，社会的发展应该给人们带来轻松和自在，但事实上并非如此。
Based on the above analysis, I have to repeat that young people of today rely on their parents more than before, which is resulted from the huge life pressure that the young are faced with. It seems that the development of society should bring more ease and relax for people, but things are different in nature.