Family - essay

100 years ago more generations have lived together in a house. However this situation have changed during decades. Nowadays, divorces are becoming more and more common, so children are living with their father or mother. 100 years ago, this structure of family was not too common.

Roles within family also have changed. While in the early 20 century, the breadwinners were fathers and mothers brought up their children. Nowadays, sometimes the breadwinner is mother. This can happen for  reasons such as unemployment. In the last Century, married couple have three or four children till today’s couple married do not want child or only one child.

Spending time has changed a lot in families. Nowadays, most children sit in front of the computer all day, while parents usually watch TV. Nowadays, families are spending less and less time each other. 100 years ago, computer and TV did not exist, so whole family have spent time each other.

Nowadays, parents have not too much time with their children because parents have to work. Due to this situation, relationship between parents and children are becoming superficial, because parents speak less and less to their children.