Families in America Families in America are coming more divided, one new technologic advance at a time. Such as in Brave New World by Aldus Huxley technology takes over their society. Families in today’s world have been taking over by social media that comes with new technology. In the last Century technology has advanced, for example your cell phone. Your cell phone started as a big brick with numbers on it, and now it’s a tiny touchscreen with a computer built in! These advances have made people more and more dependent on the technology. Back in the day you went and played with your siblings outside for fun. Now you go on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for your fun, or you hop on your video gaming station for a couple hours of dicking around and wasting time. …show more content…
The role of the father used to be support the family and come home and spend time with the family. The way it is today, greed has taken over the love of family. For example the father will work until the late end of the night, thinking he is supporting his family. Realistically he is depriving his family of a father figure. In a lot of cases the role of the mother hasn’t changed much, and that’s good. In every family you want to have parental guidance from both parents, but at least one. That’s when the mother comes in. Hopefully the mother will be staying home with the kids and raising them. In some cases the mother isn’t at home doing that because of the way the economy is these days, and the parents can’t afford to have only one of them working. This sucks because the child will now be raised by a nanny or a day care provider, instead of growing up with the parent’s thoughts and values the way they would