Family Reunions: A Thing of the Past

So, it's the year 2009 and not long ago families got together from all over to be together. However, now in the age we live in children might not see his or her parents for months or even years at a time. So why is this?

Some people believe that family isn't as important as it used to be or that family lifestyles just move to fast. A mother who gave birth to twelve children in the 1950s and 1960s; only got to see one of those twelve children on occasion. Of course all the children are grown now, and some even have children of their own. While others of the eleven children are grandparents now too. Can you imagine the family reunion that would be?

Unfortunately that has yet to happen for the family members are all over the world literally. Ideally, the concept of having a family reunion just isn't as important to people in today's fast living. Individuals have the means to travel in many different ways and yet getting together just seems to be impossible. Planes, trains, cars, trucks, buses, and other means of travel make it possible for us to get to one place to another rather quickly and yet family reunions seem to be fading into a past tradition.

What will become of family life? Mothers, fathers, children, uncles, aunts, cousins, and family members we haven't seen in years still go about the day to day living but in reality for some of us death is the only thing that brings us together again. How sad that we could see everyone while still living and we don't.

Now that society is so full of technology and the cause of being able to email, text, and with the use of fax machines families don't really even talk to each other on the phone anymore, What a shame to not even hear the voice of a family member, and yet that's what this is all coming down to.

Children are also losing the ancestry on who they really are as well because most families don't keep records or facts about the members of their families as in times past. So without records and family reunions families are getting smaller and losing track of who we are. Not to mention we don't know many of our family history members either.