COMEON作文小组------candyam 9月5日作业

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In my opinion, I agree that the extended family, a family includes grandparents, cousins, uncles and antes, becomes less important nowadays than it was in the past for the follow two reasons.
First of all, small family let people be more independent than people grow up in an extended family.  As we know, it is more competitive society nowadays than it was in the past.  The sooner you realize this situation the more effort you put to enhance your ability, and the more you learn before you graduate.  Therefore you have a high opportunity to get a good job after you leave school.  People grow up in a small family usually depend on themselves earlier and work harder for the reason that they know their parents cannot offer much help to them when they graduate. For example, one of my friends who grew up in a small family learned very hard in university, she spent all of her spare on learning English and Japanese, and she learned it well, so when she graduate, she find a job in consulate and got well paid.  While people grow up in an extended family always think they have more relatives can depend on than others, these relatives may help them to find a job or offer them one directly.  However, the truth is that people depend on their relatives end up in a poor situation, either lose their job when their relatives lose power or their relatives cannot help them at all.  In conclusion, I think small family helps people grow independently, and that is something very important in modern society.
Secondly, small family needs relatively less time on it.  As we know, people do not have sufficient time in this fast-paced society, they are very busy everyday, even in some holidays, some of them cannot go back to home.  In an extended family, people have more relatives, they need to spend time to take care their parents, buy gifts not only to their own kids but also their nephews and nieces in holidays, and always be a listener for his wife or her husband as well as his or her brothers and sisters.  These family stuffs definitely need lots of time and eventually conflict with people's job.  Therefore small family may provide us with benefits in this busy life.
In conclusion, I think small family meets the requirement of modern society much better than the traditional extended family, therefore it definitely play a more important role in our modern world.

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