It seems that everywhere around the world, people are spending more time on work and less time with their families and friends. People are 1 than ever before!
In the past in many countries, the father worked and the mother stayed at home, took care of the children, and did the shopping, cooking and cleaning. Now, in most of the families, parents need to work on weekdays, so they both have to do the shopping and cleaning in their free time. Parents don't have much time with their 2 . However, they often had time in the past.
These days, many children come home from school to an empty apartment or house. Lots of children spend many hours each day sitting in front of the television. Even the families are together, it is common for family members to do things by themselves. For example, they watch programs on their own TVs in different rooms, they use the Internet, they3 friends on the telephone, and they do other activities by themselves.
Isn't it strange? Thanks to technology (科技), people are able to communicate so 4 with people far away, but sometimes they don't communicate with people in their own homes.
