Family and Demographic Change
How technology advancement has impacted family values?
What is Family Values?
A family is interpreted as a social unit consisting of parents and the children they raise. Value is defined as worth of a thing. To combine the word together gives a definition of family values. Family values are often strengthen by our spiritual or religious beliefs and tradition. Family values is to be made of ideas that are being passed down from generation to generation. It comes down to the idea of how you want to live you family life. There are three traditional basic task in life that have defined as work, play and love. All of them are very important and it take
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With kids and parents spending full time texting, watching televisions, playing games online and listening to music, they won’t catch time to connect and create lasting memories together. We get busy with the other areas of our life that we care less to make time for members of our own family. By the end of the day at work or school, member of family want to wind down and relax. And now technology use is extensive across the country, this “wind down” and “relax” is also known as a lazy boy sitting comfortably in couch while watching television (couch …show more content…
The west focuses more on individualism whereas for the East, they emphasize on the collective good. The idea of “us” is very common in the eastern side. The family is inter-dependent. In the west the concept of strong individualism gain through. The family members are usually independent. However, these difference have been gradually fading out in the past few years and one of the main reasons is the advance and access to new technology.
Data of teens and adults usage of technology in the western country (America)
Smartphone adoption amid American teens has increased significantly and mobile access to the internet is universal. One in four teens say that they go online mostly using their cell phone. These are among the new findings from a nationally characteristic survey of 802 teens ages 12-17 and their parents which shows that:
• 78% of teens now have a cell phone, and partly (47%) has their own cellphones. That interprets into 37% of all teens who have smartphones, up from just 23% in 2011.
• One in four teens (23%) have a tablet computer, a level similar to the over-all adult population.
• Nine in ten (93%) teens have a computer or have access to one at home. Seven in ten (71%) teens say the laptop or desktop the use mostly shared with other family