In our current fast-paced and highly competitive working environment, members of the society are consequently stressed and enticed by money and wealth. People are sacrificing their family in pursuit of careers. Parents unintentionally but inadvertently and unwittingly spend lesser time with their children having much focus on their job commitments, resulting in a loss of work-life balance, family bonds and drifts in individual family members slowly creep in. The term work-life balance elucidate as harmonizing work and other parts of life, including family. Except, commonly there have always been a tendency of committing too much to their work, consequently, family time became almost to a point of nonexistent. Work and family time are overlapping …show more content…
(Blackie, 2013). Children may learn from bad influences, getting into trouble with the laws and young adults having the materialistic mindset thinking wealth is everything and neglecting their social lives. Thus, it’s essential for us to inquire into the root of the cause. This essay aims to explore and understand the efficacy of the working hours and days off in the office implemented by the government, extends of the damage impacted on families and their kids due to the work-family conflict and young adults with materialistic mindset are jeopardizing their social lives. The “ideal worker” image demands too much of the working parents and it’s causing work-family conflict. Base on the growing trend of white-collar workers in Singapore, the norm of an average office worker is traditionally a 9AM to 6PM job. The maximum hours allowed per day implemented by …show more content…
(Grougiou & George, 2013). As a child, watching their parents so fixated on their job commitment, it imprints an image of high importance on jobs and that leads them to have the mentality that a “good life” is a “goods life” hence, as they grow, they prioritize they job commitment as first. Often the child turns out to be even more fixated and being more of a workaholic than their parents, trying to live up to the standard of their parents they imagined as a child. Young adults tend to see their family, friends or peers as having to a lesser extent and in number correspondence foundation as they constantly obsess over their work, to a point of obstruction with whatever is left in their life. A longitudinal study of young adults shows an astounding increase in the adoption of materialistic mindset and values. This causes them to forgo and sacrifice their family and friendship for the never-ending pursuit of material lifestyle and self-interest. (Korton, 1999). There is a tendency where young adults jeopardize their life outside of their work life chasing after the “riches and wealth”. (Hazan, Shaver, & Phillip). Young adults need to reevaluate their priorities and prioritize for their family and friends to have a healthy balance in
This shows that teenagers take into consideration the fact that they may lose something, or gain
Teenagers are in search of a path that will lead them to a successful future. Others prefer happiness. At some point in life, everyone faces vital decisions that influence the direction our lives take. The search to find ourselves produces the tragic outcomes. Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg, once said, " Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.
In teenagers’ eyes, the world is so hypocritical. They have parents who are coercing them to go to the Ivy League, MIT, University of Chicago, Caltech, or Stanford, but parents only expect excellent results without knowing anything about their children. As a result, teenagers get so much stress. They sometimes want to run away to somewhere very far away from their home or commit suicide. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield views the world “phony.”
Furthermore, they usually highlight the bad features of society and juxtapose them to the family’s worth, so the elders give the younger generation coping strategies to function in society the best way they know (385). These three factors have an impact on people’s personalities and their futures because how a person assesses a situation leads to opportunities. Both authors
A gap is growing between family and work. This problem can be focused down to three main things: the strive for perfection, health, and technological
I like Amitai Etzioni 's article because it is from the real world. Now, I am in a similar situation, and I understand how hard it is to distribute time for study, work, household duties, and leisure. It would be great if every teenager studied well at school, then at university, and then worked happily for the chosen profession all his life. Such a happy model sometimes happens but not with all people. Most people need to have the experience to make a choice of profession.
But with all this pressure from parents to succeed and be number one, it takes a toll on kid’s ability to learn and thoroughly consider their future ambitions. Some parents exert pressure unintentionally, which can be seen when a young adult, such as a senior in high school, is trying to choose a career path. In Ellie Williams’s article, she points out that 41% of teens end up choosing their parents career or the career their parents suggest. This means almost half of all the teens in this country and around the world are choosing careers based on someone else's opinion. The result is a generation of young adults who have low self-esteem, little determination, and few ambitions of their own.
Sasse begins to argue that teens sometimes become quite lethargic when it comes to advancing into adulthood. He states that teens are "not obligated to immediately become emotionally, morally, and financially adult" (Sasse par. 8). This explains the issues many teens face today. This is an issue that will affect them and the nation.
in The Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposia explores the delicate balance of women working in and outside of the home. Placing work above family is still hurting the household, even in 2016. It seems many Americans feel women taking on the domestic chores while not working outside the home and the man being the breadwinner is the ideal living scenario, even in today’s day and age. This may be for the reason that employers have not caught up with women’s needs, nor the family’s needs.
Both of my parents had to work twelve hours a day and six days a week, cleaning and decorating nails in their business. When I was not in school, I was sitting on the sofa in the break room and careful to avoid creating a disturbance. Over time, my scorn over my position grew into acceptance, and then pride as I developed my values. Being a second-generation
However, many don’t want to drop out from their studies; they want a better education and better jobs that will pay them well. Not to have to work in a job that pays them low wages and to top it off still have to pay the loan they applied for to stay in college. It’s an everyday struggle young people go through every year just to stay in college to get their education. In the book On the Frontier of Adulthood Frank F. Furstenberg state that “More youth are extending education, living at home longer, and moving haltingly, or stopping altogether, along the stepping stones of adulthood.” Young people not reaching their adulthood, and still living at home to pursue, there dream of going to college.
There’s no typical family as nuclear families as in the past and not everyone lives in a multigenerational household. Same-sex families are also on the rise as sexual ambiguity is undergoing its own wave of acceptance in all political, social, and economic spheres. With the absence of the parents’ presence in the home due to an inability effectively balance work and home life, children could develop an emotional void/absence. Good communicative dialogue between children and their parents where the adults describe their work situation as it relates to the home to create resilient children, could possibly benefit the household.
When teens are rash and hasty with their decision making, so they tend to do things that are prideful and honorable to their peers. Despite this, young couples are still making rash decisions that are influenced by pride and
As children are able to differentiate themselves from their parents they begin to recognize the difference between them and others. Also, between the ages of 17-22 there is a transitional period of about five years from pre adulthood to young adulthood. At this point, the affiliations with family begin to change as people begin to assert themselves in the adult world (Levinson, 1986, p. 5). Next, is the early adulthood stage that goes from 17-45. Levinson states, “It is the adult era of greatest energy
Introduction In this case study, it analyse how the concept of family has changed in the past 20 years as it will be depicting modern family forms and past norms. It is important to look at how families have developed throughout the years up until the 21st century as we compare the two and elaborate on the difference and what makes it so significant. In this case study, it contrast and compare the television series Modern family which is a 21st century concept of family and The Simpsons which was adapted 27 years ago and how things have changed with family dynamics and what is the norm now which was not the norm years ago.