▶ Your Answer : Some people might think that there still is a significance why family pattern has to be expanded these days. However, in my opinion, nowadays society has been changed dramatically, whick make the family smaller. This is because a society has gone through drastic industrial improvement and the necessity of marriage has been decreased through modernization of a society.
To begin with, a society we live has moved from the cultivating stage to the industrial one. In the past, most of people maintains their living by farming, that made family gather together. This was because the work of farming needed many labors. Thus, to live to do run farms requires family to be aggrerated. A study was conducted by the Korean Farming Council to determine whether the size of family is related with jobs, especially farming. What they found was intriguing. Small family, under with 3 members, tended to live in city, and they never were engaging in farming. On the other hand, an overwhelming 83% of bigger families, over with 3 members, were living in countryside to do farming. This was because family in rural region should get together to run farmhouse, which was asking amounts of men power, while it was not necessary for family in cities since they did not have to do jobs together. This study proves that industrialization made the size of family decrease.
On top of that, the essence of marrages has become less cared today than ever before. Nowadays, there is high competition for young generation to get jobs and the costs of housing seems to be raised forever. Thus, young men cannot afford the marriage. This is because, it is harder than ever before to pay rent, buying what they need for their lives. They become to be given up for the life of marriage that requires financial capacity. For example, there was a poll conducted by the Korea Marrage Association with 200 people in twenties as respondents to understand the consensus view of the necessity of marriage. The majority of the respondents responded that they had no plan to marry since they had no confidence to make money enough to buy a house for their family's living and raise their children. This survey shows that young people have a negative view of marriage. Consequently, the diminished number of newly marriage leads to family smaller.
To sum up, surroundings around us have changed to the high-technology one and it is getting harder for young men to make money. In this regard, I hold that today the value of the large family has been decreased than before.
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