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Some people believe that the extended family is important nowadays. They might think that living with their grandparents is helpful to children to learn all about etiquette and makes them develop social ability naturally. However, in my opinion, considering the fact that young parents usually have one or two children, the dependence from the grandparents decrease and old people usually want to go back to rural from city to spend their last life in quiet place. Because of these reasons, I think the extended family is becoming less important than before.
To begin with, nowadays, young people don’t want to have their children a lot. Normally, they want one or twe children. If this situation keep going, we might not be able to see the extended family anymore. In addition, one of the reasons that people want to live with grandparents is that grandparents are of help children to learn manners and social skill. However, child care center and kindergarten are doing this role well instead of grandparents.
Also, according to the report, nowadays, the rate of returning hometown is dramatically raising. Old people want to spend their last life in rural which is quiet place. Escaping the city, they eager to simple and leisurely life. Compared with the old people, there are some reasons that why young people have to live in city because they have to make a money and get a job in the city where has lots of opportunity. So it is hard to live with together nowadays. For example, my grandparents moved to rural and before they moved, my parents asked them about living together in city, but they didn’t want to live in city. After that we couldn’t see each other frequently, but my family sometimes goes to grandparents’ house in a weekend. When I went there, I could see their happy face and leisurely appearance that I couldn’t see in city.
Also, agriculture which asks a lot of labor was main work in the past. Most of people raised crops and rice as their main job. Whole family members had to work for growing crops and harvest. To maintain their product rate, recruiting labor was important, so to lose wage, parents usually had a lot of children as possible as they could and most of them had to work in the field. However, after that because of development of science and technology, people could use machine and they don’t have to find the workers as many as they used. So, most people who lost their job went to city to find another job. For these reason, the people who permanently leave their hometown make up the nuclear family in city.
To sum up, nuclear family became a common life style instead of extended family. Low birthrate, increase of returning hometown among old people and change of housing arrangement make people to live as nuclear family. I think that the shift of the makeup of family dwelling is not as important as it was the past. |