Is this sentence grammatically correct?

''Everyone has a need to feel accepted and being cared about and it is family and friends that play a vital role in individual’s lifestyle choices.''

It's a compound-complex sentence, and it needs one comma added. Can you see where?

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sentences.htm#sentence_types

"...has a need to feel accepted and being cared about..."
This part needs to have parallel form. How will you fix it?
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/parallelism.htm

would that be better: Everyone has a need to feel being accepted and cared about, and it is family and friends that play a vital role in individual’s lifestyle choices

It would be best to eliminate "being." Substitute "who" for "that."

Almost perfect!

Remove "being" in the first clause, and add "an" before "individual" in the second clause. Then everything will be fine.

so it would be this way: Everyone has a need to feel accepted and cared about, and it is family and friends that play a vital role in an individual’s lifestyle choices

Yes.

To determine if the sentence is grammatically correct, we will need to examine its structure and usage. Let's break it down:

''Everyone has a need to feel accepted and being cared about and it is family and friends that play a vital role in individual’s lifestyle choices.''

1. The first part of the sentence: "Everyone has a need to feel accepted and being cared about" seems to have an error in parallel structure. It should be either "Everyone has a need to feel accepted and to be cared about" or "Everyone has a need to feeling accepted and being cared about."

2. The second part of the sentence: "and it is family and friends that play a vital role in individual’s lifestyle choices" seems grammatically correct.

So, overall, the sentence could be corrected as follows:

''Everyone has a need to feel accepted and to be cared about, and it is family and friends that play a vital role in an individual's lifestyle choices.''

This version maintains the correct parallel structure and improves clarity.