Nowadays, people have a tendency to live in individually or in elementary families rather than extended ones. The first reason is that conflics and misunderstanding will be redudced when the number of family members is smaller. Next, children in a nuclear family to be more independent as they have to take care themselves and their sibilings, because their parents are occupied with work. The children can do everthing such as doing housework, cooking and so on. Besides advantages, nuclear family also has disadvantages. Children may not have a chance to comminucate with their parents because their parents are always busy. Therefore, television and the Internet might become the primary influences on children’s behaviour. Next, without the help of other family members, working parents must rely on babysitters or afterschool clubs to take care of young children, which leads to raise the cost of childcare. To sum up, I would like to live in a nuclear family.