Opinions vary regarding whether today’s parents do not understand their children as much they did in the 1950s. I agree with the statement for the following two reasons. First, unlike parents of 1950s, today’s parents are busier than ever. Moreover, fast-changing society hinders parents from knowing their children.
First of all, today’ parents are busier than parents in the past. In these days, parents face fierce competition at their workplace, and they spend most of their time at company. As a result, they cannot have contact with their children. Thus, I maintain that today’s parents have difficulty in understanding their children. For example, in the past, parents were rarely exposed to severe competition because society ensured people’s job positions at that time. So, they could spend more time with their children, and grasp their children’s interesting and concern. However, today, parents are bound and driven by hectic schedules since they are no longer insured stable job positions. Thus, they have little contact with their children, and cannot easily figure out about their children’s troubles.
In addition, today’s people live in fast-changing society, which is not except for today’s parents. This society is weakening relationship between parents and their children. Accordingly, this high-speed changing society prevents parents from knowing their children, who catch up with the speed of modern society easily. Thus, I think that it is very hard for parents to understand their children in this environment. According to the study by Korean National Research Center, 71 percent of surveyed parents answered that they experience much distance from their children and themselves, who are good at dealing with highly complicated technology. Based on the study, there are increasing gap between parents and their children, who use the Internet everyday for surfing, getting information and chatting. In this sense, parents of the past are more to understand their children than today’s them.
In conclusion, there is no doubt that parents in these days do not know their children as much they did in the 1950s because parents cannot spend more time with their children and share much in common with their children in this society. |