Sümercan Ertit - 10

Question: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

'' The importance of extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles) is less than in the past.''

Having a broad family is highly appreciated and desired by some wide masses of people. However, there has been a significant change involving in this desire. The secondary family members are relocated from the people who we can dwell with in a particular area to the people for who we can chase a chance to deliver a short visit to them. Therefore, I am on espousing the stance, and this essay will explicate the causes triggering me to opt out the agreement.

To begin with, it should be highly sized up how our social lives has undergone differentiations over the years. The tendency to reside with broad family members or stay in a settlement of them is replaced by the idea of moving away from the ambit of family. In particular, migrations that can be associated with numerous reasons from countryside to metropols is a great sign of this kind of consideration. As a result, the distances between the people and their broad family members elevates and the difficulty to reach them - connected to dozens of causes- render broad family members in a stable situation of being secondary, so has been their importance.

Related with the previous claim, the responsibilities of people far from their broad families have a sharp impact on the ultimate significance they gave to extended family. The people are mostly focusing on their job requirements and lifelong issues like money management and evaluation of how glorified they live. When it comes to the importance rank, they generally opt out their existing primary families or even themselves at first ranks, however, wide family members are unable to compete with the former two.

The conceptual revolution that I mentioned above were not restrained only in considering the family. Appearently, a new guild of people obtained some priority in terms of being essential. They are the friends. As the kilometers between people and their huge family rises, the environment of people has a striking alteration, which includes the high percent of friends and diminished percent of family-related people. subsequently, exhibiting intense interest to members is in a dramatic decrease, presenting the same thoughtful manner to the friends is however, increasing. For instance, due to the sphere in which we live, when we weep or we feel quite buoyant, the primary ones that we can share our emotions are our friends.

To conclude, family members are always valuable, but the technological, social and conceptual alterations turns them to a decline of their importtance, and I pore on that this will last as long as the priorities and concerns are on the ambit we are residing in.