A large number of people might argue that today’s
parents spend many time on their children as they did in the past. Contrary
to the popular belief, I think that parents today tend to spend less time on
their children comparing with the past for the following reasons; the number
of double-income household has increased, and science technology has
developed amazingly.
First of all, today’s parents lack time to spend with
their children. As the time passed, people’s prejudice of women has
eliminated. Naturally, women began to study hard and as a result find a job.
These days, the number of working mothers has increased, and they usually
spend much of their time at workplace to survive in meritocratic society.
Since they lack their personal time, their children tend to spend their time
at home alone. For example, according to the researched conducted by the Korea
Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in 2015, an average hour that parents
spend with their children has decreased a lot, and the major factor for it
was the increase of double-income households. It means that, as parents tend
to spend more time on their occupation, they began to spend less time with
their kids.
In addition, as science technology has developed,
children are now able to study alone. Just looking around many sites, there
are numerous educational contents, such as online lecture, educational
animations, and knowledgeable quiz. Whereas the time when students could only
ask their parents to get some difficult information, students today can just
search the net to find information. This content allowed them to study themselves.
For instance, when my youngest cousin tried to learn math, he registered an
online math lecture course. It included various math quiz and also provided online
tutor to check his accomplishments. By using this program, my aunt didn’t
need to teach him and spend a lot of time on him. By looking this situation, we
can know that today’s parents prefer to use Information Technology rather
than spending their time on their children.
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