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Some people think that the extended family is more important than ever before. However, in my opinion, the extended form of family is not that practical. This is because there is not so much chance to interact with each other even when family members live in the same household. Moreover, there is so much possibilities for conflicts between children and their grandfather. To begin with, family members cannot communicate and share their lives with each other even though they all live together. This is because today's children are busy going school and extracurricular academics, and likely to come back home late. Also, their parents are busy due to their jobs. I will take an example of myself. When I was in adolescent, I lived with my grandparents. I had expected to spend much time and enjoy leisure with them. However, I was busy doing my high school studying, and there was not so much time to interact with them. In fact, seldom had there been many opportunities for my all family members to spend much time together. On top of that, those who live with grandparents could have problems related to conflicts between generations. This is because what children thinks is important for their life is likely to differ from what their grandparents think is important. Children probably seems not thoughtful from the perspective of their grandparents; however, children might think that they are so rigorous and inflexible. For example, I will talk about my friend, Hyun-su, to elucidate my point. He lives with his grandfather. From his grandfather's viewpoint, it is imperative to come back home early, and this viewpoint might be natural to grandparents' generation. However, my friend thinks that the way of thinking is too inflexible, considering that he is now 26-yeard-old. Indeed, there have been a lot of conflicts between them due to this problem and Hyun-su still complains about it. In conclusion, one cannot build emotional bond between their family members in spite of being in the extend family form. Additionally, it is much likely, for those living with grandparents, to suffer from problems resulted from difference between generations. In this regard, I firmly assert that the extended family is no longer beneficial as before. |