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Some people say that young people nowadays
are more dependent on their parents compared to the past. However in my
opinion, I think that modern generation is more independent on their parents
compared to the past. The two reasons are that the modern generation can rely
on other people or internet and the time that young children spend with their
parents is reducing.
To begin with, as education becomes
mandatory and routes that young people can obtain information such as internet
and books grow, young people do not necessarily need to solely rely on their
parents any more. Compared to the past, young people have more opportunity to
go to school, and when they have problem, they can get advise from their
teachers. Furthermore, if they want to get some information, they can search
internet directly. For instance, there was a poll conducted by the Board of
Education with 200 young people under 20 as respondents. The purpose of the
survey was to investigate who or which that young people depend on the most.
The majority of respondents ranked internet over their parents. The reason were
mainly because they can find information fast.
On top of that, the intimacy between
children and parents reduces since the time they spend together reduces. In the
past, it was common that mothers care about their children. However nowadays it
is not. The number of women that maintain working after the marriage increases.
Furthermore since the world becomes more competitive, parents become more busy
to not lose their job. For example, when I was in elementary school, I had some
trouble with my friend. However my parents were so busy that they did not have
time to counsel me. So I asked my teacher for help and he advised me.
To sum up, there is other people and routes
that young people can depend on and young people and parents spend less time
than before. In this regard, modern generation does not rely on their parents
that much compared to the past.
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