Nowadays families are not as close as they used to be. What do you think are the causes of this? What can be done to make families closer?

Folks are not currently that intimate in comparison to the past

due to

the fact that family members are spending a lot of time surfing the internet. Plus, they need to work around the clock.

Nevertheless

, devoting mobile-free time to one’s flesh and blood can help them establish a close connection with one another.

This

essay delves into the sources of

this

problem and helps with the way human beings can tackle

this

issue. These days, people are forced to accept jobs with unsocial working hours for the purpose of being able to make a living. Since the rate of inflation is increasing rapidly, not only should different members of the family be employed

in addition

to the breadwinner, but

also

they have to work overtime without any bonuses and incentives. My father, holding a position as an office worker, needs to work in a mall after he is done with his main job being responsible for taking care of the parking lot.

Therefore

, he is pretty tired when he comes back and he cannot hang about with us which has made us dramatically far from each other. With the growth of the technology and emergence of new gadgets, the number of technophiles is increasing rapidly and

this

has led to technology addiction. Lots of families are physically near,

however

; they are not considered close-knit families anymore as they all surf the internet and check social media not talking to one another. Despite all the problems and difficulties of modern life, getting close to relatives is not an impossible phenomenon. In most countries, people have two days off on a weekly basis which is deemed to be a great opportunity to level up the relationship among them. Mobile-free family gatherings make family members pay closer attention to each other’s feelings and what has happened to them during the week. In my family, we are all free on Fridays and it is the family reunion day. We started

this

kind of meeting

last

year. All of us turn off our phones for a couple of hours and sit around the table talking about the week. Since

then

, we have been closer to each other and feel happier. Generally speaking, working hard and more than social hours has made mankind too tired to be able to have enough communication with their parents and siblings.

Moreover

, being addicted to the internet doesn’t let people spend their free time with one another. It can be said that if families spend their weekends with each other turning off their mobile phones, they can get closer to each other rather than being as dysfunctional as they are these days.