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Some people think that the extended family is still important as it was before. They may think that living with the extended family has many advantages for people. However, in my opinion, the importance of the extended family reduces now because there are various caring institutes for children and people can obtain information from the Internet. To begin with, child caring institutions are increasing. Before, when parents went to work, grandparents usually raised their grandchildren. However, nowadays, since there are many child caring services and education institutions, parents do not need to leave their children with grandparents anymore. For instance, when my mother was young, she was raised by her grandmother because her mother worked at a hospital and there was not proper child care services for working mothers. However, my mother did not leave me with my grandmother and I spent my childhood at different places such as a daycare, library, and community service center with other people. On top of that, people can get information about various fields on the Internet. Generally, people learned from older people and asked for their wisdom in the past. However, now, we can use the Internet to search information and learn about knowledge of life and solutions. I can take an example of my uncle. When my uncle started to do farm work, he could learn about it only from his father. However, as time passed by, due to the development of the Internet, he could get information from multiple experts and communicate with them on the Internet. My uncle said that he did not need to ask for know-how from his father anymore and used the Internet and gather useful information he wanted. To sum up, I believe that the extended family is not as important now as before because there are many child caring service centers and people can gain information about their life and work from the Internet. |