▶ Your Answer : Undoubtedly, family plays a significant
role in people’s daily lives in many of the places where they work or play.
Some people might say that the extended family is not as important now as
before, while others do not. Both sides may have own reasons to support their
views, If I had to choose one, I would say that it is less significant the
extended family now than before. There are several reasons as follows.
To
begin with, families are more extended in the past than in the present, because
today’s society is more developed in Information Technology and thus people can
solve their problems for themselves. Today’s society, with the invention of
Information Technology, such as Internet and smartphones, is overflowing with
the information related knowledge, skills, and abilities for people’s needs.
Using such information, people nowadays are likely to obtain solutions for
themselves, not seeking for advice from their parents or grandparents. For example,
according to research conducted by Harvard University, there was a huge
difference between the past and the present in family types. In the past, 90
percent of families are the extended family and they always asked their
grandparents for help because their experiences are significant role in solving
problems when they were in trouble. However, most of the family in nowadays are
not necessary to obtain solutions from their grandparents, because they can
search online and obtain satisfactory answers. This implies that without
maintaining the extended family, today’s people are able to seek for advice
sufficiently and obtain words of comfort.
In
addition, the extended family is not as vital nowadays as before since diverse
machines are developed these days. Compared to the past, which people had to
cooperate each other to get agricultural materials, today’s society is equipped
with many agricultural machines that help people do work efficiently and
accurately. As such functions are well used, the extended family is not likely to
be needed. To illustrate, South Korea’s industries in the 1970s are almost made
up of agriculture. A number of people are required to work and cooperate each
other to get many of the things they obtain from their grounds. However, as
society has changed, machines are developed gradually, and thus it is not necessary
to require many people when people work. Naturally, the extend family has been
decreasing continuously and thus today’s family almost consisted of just three
or four members. Without the invention of machines, the extended family is as crucial
now as before.
All things
considered, I strongly believe that the extended family is more important
before than now for the reasons I have mentioned above. All in all, the
importance of the extended family has been decreasing by diverse societal
factors.
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