In: Psychology
What social factors affect your family life? In what ways is your family life different from that of your grandparents when they were your age?
Teen cultural trends influence the entire family. These social forces include children living away from home during college, teen marriage ages and young parenting trends. Other trends shaping family life include teen mobility and the importance teenagers put on jobs and disposable income. Employed teens frequently miss family meals and home activities while at work, and this reduces the number of shared family experiences. The social and family pressures to attend college or live in a dorm or off-campus apartment also offer different family experiences compared with teens living at home with parents and siblings while going to college.
By my age, my grandparents were married and had three kids. My grandfather had fought in a war, and my grandmother cooked every meal from scratch. They lived simply and continually traded up from one house to another. This is so different from me. I'm single, and have no children. I don't even know how to cook!