Family and Modern Societies

The word 'family' is defined as a unit of two or more people related by blood or marriage. They live and spend time together, raise their children. Procreation is one of the functions of the family. Some couples prefer to have children and unfortunately some do not ,in some cases because of health problems. Countries differ in their laws and norms concerning who and at what age can marry. Western societies seek to have a 'nuclear' family consisting of parents and their adopted or biological children ,but the most common form of the family is 'expanded' family, it may include parents, their children and also uncles , aunts, nieces ,nephews, cousins, and grandparents. People create families for their security and love. If you live in an extended family, there is always someone who can help you .The form of the family changes as the society changes .And the well being of the family depends on the well being of the country. Couples have children to have their support when they get old. Having child is great, bringing a little life into the world. Nowadays people prefer to have only one child in their family. It happens not because of their unwillingness to have more children, but because of some factors that influence their decision making. Firstly, some people do not have enough money to provide enough food for the family members, some can't have more than one child due to the government's policy (China as an example) and secondly ,for people's material values are more important than having a family.
Having a child is a great responsibility. You need to earn enough money for yourself and for your child. Not only to buy food or some clothes, but also to give your child the ability to attend dance classes as for example or to stud...

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...uples consider themselves to be too young to have a child,their career is taking off. They want to earn a lot of money to buy an expensive car or a big house. Such people more focusing on their job, their career, on themselves, they think that life is better without children. They think if having children they will have to give up on the career and focus more on the family.
The great role plays the fact concerning in which family husband and wife were born. Whether it is an extended family or nuclear ,it influences a lot on the future of children's family. If a person was born in an extended family he would seek to have the same size of the family and it's the same with nuclear family. Nowadays people have different values than some 10 years ago. People of older generations even didn't think of a divorce, but now for modern societies this is just a simple thing.