▶ Your Answer : Some people think that raising children is always difficult to do when it compared to the past. However, in my opinion, I think that it became more easy to rear children nowadays than 50 years ago. There are two reasons. First, taking care of children is work for both parents not only for woman nowadays. Second, caring for children is getting easier due to the development of sharing community in virtual space. To begin with, caring for children is not woman’s job anymore. Since generation is changed and the more women have their career, both parents started to take care of their children. It requires little effort because parents do the things together and their babies can feel both side’s affection. For example, when my mom raised my brother and me, although she was once a elementary school teacher, she quit her job and took care of me and my brother. Since caring for children was for woman’s work in my parent’s generation, she really loved her job but she gave it up. Compared to my mother’s experience, my brother’s wife doens’t quit her job for raising their baby. They employed babysitter in daytime and they both cared their son in night time. So they can not only handle their schedule easily but also they can raise their baby. Second, thanks to big growth of technology and Internet commnunities, people can easily raise their children. Compared to the past that parents should decide all the things related to their babies, thanks to the Internet environment, we can easily share our information. For example, my cousin joined the Internet community for getting advice and receiving some help from other parents. After the affiliation, she get some help in her baby’s clothes. Although babies grow fastly, their clothes are really expensive and have quite short wearing period. So there are lots of baby’s clothes selling in community. Because she did not want to spend much money on her baby’s dress, she purchased some cheap but quite good quality clothes in the community. Were it not for the community, she would not have made clever consumption. To sum up, since both parents participate in caring children, raising them is not tired stuff. Moreover, the growth of community makes easy way for raising babies. In this regard, I firmly believe that it is much more easier to take care of children nowadays. |