▶ Your Answer :Some people think
that the extended family is more important now than ever before. However, in my
opinion, the extended family is less essential today. This is because living arrangements
of today are different from that of the past and we are no more work forces in farming.
To begin with, we
have different living style compared to the living style of past. In other
words, multiple generations lived together under one roof in the past but most
of us live respectively. For example, my parents lived with their grandparents,
parent and cousins. However, I lived only with parents and younger brother.
Even since a year ago, my brother has lived alone.
On top of that, in
the view of social form, a livelihood in the past is farming. This led to need
many work forces and make the extended family. However, today agriculture is
not predominant means of living. According to the research by National Adult
Job Council, people who have a job that need many work forces of family such as
farmer accounted for little proportion.
To sum up, we have
different living arrangement and social form compared to the past.
In this regard, I
strongly believe that the extended family is not important as much as in the
past. |