Essay On Family And Globalization

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Global Perspective Report
Mid-Year 2017
Has globalization affected family life?
Personal Opinion:
In my opinion globalization has affected the family life. As the family members including the parents remain busy on social sites rather than spending time with children and sometimes fathers use the globalized sites for business so he remain indulged in business even when its family time.
Introduction:
Globalization is the activity through which the wealth, societies and cultures of states and locality have become united via global system of trade, transmission, movement and transportation.
The communities depend on each other for every issue including medical, educational, business, flow of capital, political, global banking and transportation. …show more content…

Due to the authority of advertisements, notice boards and commercials of many kinds of eatables, outfits, well-furnished homes and cars. Family members are involuntary buying the items regardless of their needs. They consume most of the wealth to acquire contentment. Moreover, globalization affects the member’s mindset from general to personal. In the former times, the whole household gets involved in cooking competitions in the town and settle together for consuming the meals but currently each member has his own selection of food and choice that weather he have to eat indoor or outdoor with friends. They have their own selection of outfits and television shows. In addition globalization encourages many processes through which drugs are circulated in the whole world and then to the members of the family. Misuse of drugs has affected many of the households. Due to the more use of mobile phones the members of the family get less time to spend with each other as they remain busy on social sites like Facebook, whatsapp and snapchat even the parents do not scold their children as they also remain busy with the same sites. Lastly, globalization has increased divorce rates. Being available on social sites had made it easier to contact with other spouse this ends the relation between a