NEGATIVE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON FAMILY DYNAMICS       2400w

 Technology plays a major role in hindering family relationships. It profoundly affects the family by decreasing family time, reducing socialization, and face-to-face interaction. Technological advancements are transforming the ways families interact. Media and other forms of technology are creating a divide in the family as children are viewing “division” as independence and freedom from their parent’s intrusion in their social lives. On the other hand, parents are also immersed in their own technological lives rather than trying to connect with their children. Hence, technology is destroying the parent – child relationship and reducing communication among family members.  The technology is also filling the gaps in many people’s lives. It is slowly becoming an inescapable tool as more and more people are finding it hard to live without technology. Nevertheless, technology is also changing family habits and disturbing family time.

Children are discovering their own ways of entertainment and parents are getting busy with their own lives ranging from watching T.V to talking on the phone. This results in family members spending less time with each other and more time with technology. The topics that will be covered in this paper will include an overview of family disputes due to technology, negative impact of technology on family time, and finally, the effects of media on family socialization. The information covered will be a combination of scholarly journals as well as informative magazine articles that will go more in depth to explain the effect of technology on family relationships as well as provide som