In the past, people emphasized the virtue of the extented family because in that time, it is impotant for them to cooperate enitre member of it. However, the improtance of extended family has doubted by many in these day. Moreover, the line of the famiily has been vague in our society. this essey will explore why the extented famiily has been faded out.
First of all, extented family has become meaningless because of the widespreads of individualism. It is a known fact that people in these day begin to focus on their life more thanever. Even in the Asia, where people highly emphasize the virtue of family than any other regions, the influx of individualism from the west has changed whole family culture of the people. Becuase of introduction of this new ideology, people start to stop understanting the value of each other and like to do what they want without any disturbance. More and more people tends to live on their way, as a result, they cannot help but to live seperately to pursue thier own purposes.
Not only prevalent individualism make it hard to whole family live together, but the gap between the generations also has contributed to the social phenomenon. Since corrent society is changing at extream speed, there are a number of group that have totally different ways of thinking. Sometimes the gap between the old generation and young generation breads significant conflicts within a family. Generally, The bigger the gap, the harder the confrontations is to be settled. Therefore, people in such conflicts choose to live respectively. For example, according to natioal survey conducted by Ministry of Welfare and Health, In Korea, the number of neuclear families has been doubled within the past three years. It also reveals that the rising number of small family is due to the disagreement between two different generation.
Finally, The concept of the familly has been rapidly changed in these day. The change of the concept of family also greatly influence on the decreasing number of extended family. In this days and ages, there are a fine line which define the word "family". There are many different types of families which some peple might feel confusion to call them family such as single moms. celibates, and so on. The wavering concept of family make people think less about the importance of family and thier role within it. To illustrate, in France, experts concluded that the concept of the family in France had been died out. Actually, France is well-known as various kind of family and social acceptation of cohabitation. |