The women must get up early to prepare breakfast for everyone in their families. On the other hand, we don’t see this event much in modern families. Women can wake up at the same time as their husbands and not prepare anything.
This is an example showing the difference between traditional families and modern families in my country. I think there are a lot of differences, but I’m going to contrast just three big differences, which are size, head of household, and discipline.
An important difference is the size of the family. The size of traditional families is larger than that of modern families. They normally have more than ten people in their families, while modern families have only three or four people. Traditional families always live with their relatives and have many children, so they are large families. Another reason is your job. Traditional families are farmers. Family members can work on their farms, therefore they do not hire workers. They can save a lot of money.
On the contrary, modern families do not need anyone to help them in their work because they work in the office. They only have one or two children and do not live with their relatives. I think this difference affects modern families because they will not know their relatives, as traditional families do. They only meet them on special occasions, such as birthdays and New Years.
For example, children do not get used to their grandparents because they only see them a few times a year. They won’t respect you as much as they should. I think it will become an aggressive problem in our societies because they do not know how to appreciate or sympathize with older people. Children will not obey or help them when they grow up. For example, adolescents do not obey their teachers, as if they were small children, or they do not hit the elderly when they see seats on the subway.
Another difference between traditional families and modern families is the head of the family. Men are always the traditional head of the family. Women tend to take care of children at home, while men work outside. Women and children must listen and obey when men tell them to. Men have the power to order their family members to do everything, even if they don’t like doing it. For example, fathers can choose husbands for their daughters. It’s not a good idea that women and children always need to believe their orders, so now they have switched to modern families.
Modern families do not have heads of households because women and men are equal. Both women and men work outside. They share ideas with each other. Women and children do not obey the orders of men if they believe that their orders are not correct. Women and children can decide for themselves. For example, women work outdoors, just like men. When the women come home, they don’t do the housework alone because the men need to help together. I think it is the positive change in our societies.
The last difference is discipline. Traditional families have many rules that directly impact their children. I think that parents in traditional families are always strict because they have many children to take care of. Only women take care of children at home, so they need to have many rules to control them. On the other hand, modern families have few rules to control their children. Parents of modern families work outside. They don’t have enough time to take care of their children, so they don’t have time to set rules either. They always pamper them. They hire someone to watch their children while they work outside.
This difference actually affects modern families because their children will always create problems to get the attention of their parents. For example, children don’t go to school because they want their parents to ask them why they do this. They want their parents to talk to them. This article has presented three differences between traditional families and modern families in my country.
I think these differences may indicate some development of the family system from the past to now, such as caring for children and their lives. When societies change, families also change. Both good and bad things change. People should choose only the good things to change in their families because families are important.
