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As time goes by, the extended family decreases and now many nuclear families appear. It means that nowadays the extended family becomes less important than it was in the past. There are two reasons why I believe like this; first is because it is hard to sustain extended family and they don’t feel that they should live together as a form of extended family because of development of technology.
First of all, it is easy to live for family as nuclear family. The reason why they have to live apart is that each member of family has own their job and to commute readily they need to live apart and live nearby their workplace. If not, someone whose workplace is too far away from his house would be very tired to commute every day. Also, now people are generally exposed to indivisualism, as trend of society, they feel difficult to live together. Since, they have to consider all their lots of family members’ opinions when they make important decisions, they think living together as extended family is burdensome. So, they have become nuclear family and now they live freely. They only meet their cousin, uncles and aunts on special days such as new years day, Christmas, Thanks giving day, birthday, etc. I believe, it proves that extended family becomes less important than it was in the past.
Furthermore, thanks to development of technology, many people are able to handle many tasks without cooperation of family members. For example, in the past, many people live together to help each other. Especially, many people are engaged in agriculture, which needs many workers and to lessen the cost of personnel, the extended family is prevalent in the past. On the other hand, as a machine appears, people became do their work by their own. They can move heavy things with truck and harvest crops with machines. Hence, they need less people to work than they did in the past. Also, as many people have lived in the city, they don’t need physical cooperation like before. Now many companies want people who are smart, skillful and accustomed to use of computer. Although there are still some places requiring a manual labor, employers don’t hire his family as employee. Therefore, an extended family is less important than before.
In conclusion, there are two reasons why I agree with an extended family is less crucial than it was in the past; people feel comfortable to live apart for their own job and they don’t need such cooperation to do the task because of advance of a machine. |