You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
It is generally accepted that families are not as close as they used to be. Give reasons why this change has happened and suggest how families could be brought closer together?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
Family bonds are not as strong as they used to be. Most family members nowadays do not share a strong relation towards each others. Many factors around us, were responsible in deteriorating those relations, pulling families apart. The list can be long, and actually varies from culture to another. Yet if you looked closely you will find them sharing a lot of these acquired traits that helped in breaking not only family relations but the entire society. I will be going through some of these factors, also I will demonstrate how we can overcome such phenomena.
Life is moving in fast paced steps, without giving enough time for relations to fully develop and emotions to settle. Making the society become very materialistic, allowing jealousy to grow in our hearts even towards our own brothers and sisters. The fact that we developed what we call peer pressure, where we get competitive with our beloved ones just to prove that we are better. To add to that, we need to consider the difficulty of current life. Where parents are forced to spent most of their time working away from home, in order to sustain their income so they can survive life expenses. Leaving children at home with very little interaction or even a stressful one, not allowing any strong emotions to really form.
Parents have to be aware of that, and actually spend efforts in making sure to build healthy relations between their children. And to do so, things have to start from a higher level. I mean by that governments, they can provide great help to families and society, by first spreading awareness of such issue and acknowledge its existence. Then governments need to provide the needed support for families that they are need. They in fact need to do so, in many forms not just one, this could be ranging from helping with free health and education services, also providing community classes where they teach parents how to form a healthy relation with their kids. Also how to deal with all those rapid changes that happens around us, teaching how families can react together and help each others. Building not only strong families but strong societies too.