Whether Families today are closer than they used to be

Family over everything they say; but how many of us truly comprehend the meaning of family ties?

Personally

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I don't agree that

families

today are closer than they used to be for

alot

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a lot

of reasons.

Firstly

; growing up as kids in a

one bedroom

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apartment in a Nigerian

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home, me and my two siblings will

wake

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up in the morning to Mummy leading morning prayers. After that

comes

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series

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of regular morning routines which we all did

together with

pleasure, playing and enjoying every minute of our childhood. We will eat together from the same tray after our morning baths, sometimes eating directly from the hot pot. we will share a piece of fish three ways or whatever proteins

remaning

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remaining

in the food from the previous

day

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cooking; we will prepare for school afterwards and still walk about 3

kilometers

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to our community nursery and primary school. we were practically inseparable. Too young to understand family ties but naturally we were united in a very strong family

bond

; probably because we were always in the same space and being cared for by the same parents.

However

; as we grew up, we did

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things together. Our parents sent us off to different boarding schools which meant that we saw each other less and spoke

occassionally

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occasionally

. We grew older and went off to different cities for colleges and higher education institutions. The distance grew between us and the

bond

diminished significantly; three inseparable musketeers with no secrets a few years ago, now have secrets and unshared experiences. It is only natural that the

bond

won't be as strong as it was when we were kids in our

parents

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little home, I guess we can blame that on adulthood.

In addition

to that,

families

are bigger these days, ranging from extended to polygamous

families

and even family by law;

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examples

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: in-laws and adopted siblings.

This

has a great effect on how close the members will be when they grow. The

up bringing

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and

backgroud

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background

of children

as well as

the size of the family affects their

bond

in the near future. In conclusion, the high increase

of

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divorce globally signifies that there is an increase in the number of broken homes and family

separation

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separations

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.

This

supports the argument that

families

are not as close as they used to be. Family is beyond just blood

relationship

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and I think that closeness or

bond

with a person takes consistent and conscious efforts to sustain, which most people are too distracted with less important

day to day

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responsibilities of adulthood to remember the need to regularly check up on their loved ones. I am guilty of

this

negligence too, which is why I won't claim

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on the issue.

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I recommend we all need to make more conscious efforts to rekindle the closeness and

bond

we

ones

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shared with our family.