FAMILY SITUATION IN SERBIA

-by Predrag Milicevic

INTRODUCTION
The picture of a typical modern family gives us the opportunity to recognize the many things that have changed between family members for about 20 years. The main thing that can be visibly seen is the relationship between parents and children.

A TYPICAL FAMILY
Modern kids are left alone by themselves to build up character watching the so called "Successful individuals", appearing on TV shows, magazines and internet, and so they develop wrong attitudes about moral value and behavior in their surrounding. Instead of parents, mass-media has taken the role of the educator as well as people surrounding them. This leads to the fact that bothparents have to work 10 hours a day, and when back home are too exhausted to participate in child activities. The biggest paradox is that they are working in order to enable their children a life which they would like to have, and so making a big mistake which creates distance between children who want parental attention rather than a new cell phone.

RECENT CHANGES
By drawing a parallel between modern behavior andthat from about 20 years ago we come to a conclusionthat we also joined the world where money meanseverything, without moral value that makes normalsurroundings. Children today are forced to go outside and play with friends in order to keep them away from computers which replaced everything that kids used to grow up with. Before democracy appeared, people lived under weird and difficult circumstances, to turn into machines over whom we used to joke, for example- "Look at them, they are just working while we are relaxing at bars".

CONCLUSION

The truth is that from a specific nation we evolved into standard people who live by western standards where there is a lot time to work, but so little time for children. Once we were free, now we are slaves.