In the past, people needed to make extended families for their survival because their main tasks were agriculture. Usually, agriculture demand many kinds of physical labors, so extended family’s members should help other family’s member. However, in my point of view, the extended families’ importances are less rather than past.
To begin with, today, people have diverse conveniences for their lives,so extended families’ duties are less than past. In the past, when parent go out on their works, extended family’s members as grand mother or aunt took care of their children, and they felt responsibilty that they should took care of children. However, it was not case in today. For example, today, if parent feel busy or both of parent have their job, they can employ babysitter, or they can send their children to daily care center. Moreover, parent can use these services by just one calling. This example shows that dutied and chores once done by extended family’s members are replaced through other employee or conveniences.
Second, today, extended family’s members live too far away from other family’s member. Futhermore, people earn enough money through diverse their job, so they do not require help to other exetened family’s members than past. For example, my aunt live in Canada and she is nurse. Her main tasks are repoting and caring of patients. She earn enough money for her survival through her job. Although her extended family’s members live in Korea, She does not have difficulties, and she does not require help to other extended family’s members for her life. This example explains that even if extended family’s members live far away, people do not receive other effects in their lives.
In brief, today, people do not receive help from extended families than past because they can use diverse survices for their children, they can earn enough money for their survival, and extended family’s members live far away from other member. Finally, I strongly believe that this trends will continue, and the extended family’s importances will be to decrease. |