Nowadays people’s life is changing rapidly and, as a result, family relationships are affected.
Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?
Give your opinion and examples from your own experience.
It is an irrefutable fact that family is an essential aspect of everyone’s life. In this day and age, individual’s way of living is transforming quite rapidly and due to this their bond with the family has impacted. This approach has both upsides and downsides; however, I still believe that disadvantages of this trend outweigh the advantages.
On the one hand, new traits in the modern lifestyle can also be beneficial for family relationships at times. A typical example is that the habit of communication via social networks rather than face to face meeting helps family members who live far away from each other to show love and care through exchanges of messages and emotions, or via voice or video calls.
However, the bond among family members is weakened because of new lifestyles. Firstly, people love to travel more than before, and for the young, their journeys are more for enjoyment among friends rather than for quality time with their family. This contributes to reducing time spent with family members and thus loosen the ties among parents and children and siblings.
The growing addiction to the internet also has the negative effect. Family members might be sitting together at home, but they are mentally not present. They are engaged in talking with their friends. Furthermore, the increasing preference for living alone is making people much more isolated. The lack of social connection with family members leading to an increase in feelings of depression and loneliness. Thus, because of these reasons I feel that changing lifestyles have harmed family relationships.
In conclusion, people’s lifestyles are changing rapidly and is greatly impacting relationships between family members. I opine that , it is detrimental for individuals and the society.