▶ Your Answer : Majority of people believe that the value of the extended family act as an important factor in currrent days. They believe so, because the value has served a crucial role in integrating families, communities and a nation. However, I believe that the living as an extended family is not as important as before. There are two reasons I support this opinion. First, the recent social value is mainly aimed at respecting individual's privcay. Second, human force is not highlighted anymore. At first, I thought keeping extended family was very important, because it seems like has many advantages. However, reading many experts opinions published in major newspapers, I changed my view. I realized that keeping extended family is not as important now as before. A renowned social scientist published a paper about whether sustaining extended family is as effective as before or not. According to the results of the investigation, written in the paper, he asserted big families, compared to the small families consisting only around 4 people, had lower average satisfaction index. This is due to the fact that extended families do nofit respect each individual's personality, and individuality, all the while insisting sacrifice for families. Through the article in the newspaper, I learned that, in some aspect it sustaining big family systems is not as critical now as before. Second, according to the article published on the Korean Herald on last Tuesday, family value has been waning gradually, since the third industrial revolution changed our lifestyles. The writer claimed that the worth of the man power is getting lower and lower, and the machine power and the creative mind-set becoming priceless. When people relied only on fishing and farming, more people meant more money they could earn. So, our ancesters preferred grow their family size as big as possible. As the value of a big family is not very helpful to survive in modern society and not efficient anymore, people now prefer to maintain smaller family sizes. At extreme, some people even live alone. To conclude, I strongly believe that there living in an extended family is not as crucial as before, As the trend of our society and lifestyles has changed, eventually, tremendously. In addition, my opinion cannot be underestimated considering the reason I have mentioned above. |