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 is reduced 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 the kids’ 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 were not no 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 center,
library, and a 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-hows from his father anymore and
used the Internet and to 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.