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Extended family is not as important as it was in the past.
Since the social structures have been changing due to development of industry and economy, humans’ life and careers become different from decades ago. Especially in China, the living condition has been improved a lot, and modern people accept many modern views and lifestyle, which bring another family pattern, the nuclear families, a couple and one child. Therefore, I tend to assume that extended family is not as important as before because that structure of family almost disappeared in modern society.
Currently, young people have desire to show their independence and distinctive personalities. Living with parents and grandparents will limit them in many ways. The parents may urge their next generation to have kids as soon as they get married, if young people do not that plan with in a short time. It happened in some families that when young generation did not follow elder generation’s desire, they may be regarded as disrespecting to parents. In China, some advanced people still keep traditional views, such as to describe working in one position as persistence. However, it is hard for young people who struggle in the modern society to accept. Under the serious competition and rapid development, it is easy for young generation to move out to pursue their dreams. The new model working system provides both opportunities and stress for diligent people. Lifetime work position did not exist any more except being a professor. Therefore, parts of the youngster plan to experience in different areas to practice themselves. On the other hand, when they just graduated from university, a new environment and how to cooperate with co-workers become primary issues should be tackled. That is an unstable situation for many young people in modern times. Their parents’ generation who prefer working in the same place with whole life will criticize them on job jumping. The different views between two generations will not bring agreement on this point, thus lead to frustration to the family.
Meanwhile, young couples live by themselves as nuclear families could encourage each other. With the similar opinions about the future and society, they can have an appropriate plan on life. For instance, they may go back to university for graduate programs after working for several years. It probably will not be eligible for elder generation: to quit the profession, then study in university. Some may try to adopt DINC family, double incomes no kids. But those can never be mentioned in extend family.
Finally, due to the benefit for young generation live individually, extended families will be fewer. The rapid social development brings modern lifestyles, which makes humans from different times equip every distinctive ideas. Therefore, I tend to assure that extend families are not as significant as before. |
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