▶ Your Answer : There has been a debate concerning with whether the extended family is not as important now as before. For my opinion, I truly agree with the following statement for two reasons. To begin with, the extended family becomes not important because these days, a lot of people prefer to live in each individual houses for their private lives. According to my little brother, Josh always says that living with lots of family members cannot protect his own privacy even though all members are living in each individual rooms, because he should share the specific kinds of rooms like toilet, and he cannot lock his room for his private life that he does not want to show. Likewise, because of showing his private life with living together, he always feels stressed and unsatisfied, and he also wanted to move to his individual house as he thinks the form of the extended family is not helpful for his private life. On top of that, people started to move to the new cities because they can connect with lots of family members by using the internet in recent time even though they are not living together. In the past, a lot of people could not get the diverse kinds of information about their family if they don't live with the extended family. However, with using social network service on the internet, people can connect with their family more easily compared to the past even though they are not living with the extended family, and a lot of people just moved to the new city with lots of opportunities to connect with their family. According to the professors from Stanford University, they usually argues that ninety-three percentages of people started to move to the diffrent regions because they can keep connecting with their family. So, it sounds plausible to say that the extended family is not as important now as before. To sum up, taking all of these things into the accound, I already have arrived at the rational conclusion that the extended family is less important now than before. It does not mean that I completely ignore the opposite side of opinions, but my opinions are more reasonable to prove the reasons about this topic. So, I want to say that the extended family in recent time is not as important as before. |