in the past it's common to see one big family that is made up of a faw generations including parents children grandparents and grandchildrens living together in the same home or in the same neighborhood as children grow up they sometimes go to good schools far away in other towns as young people receive hidher educations many of them seek good jobs outside of their children to famous schools in capital cities young people left their small hometowns to work in big cities but this is not only the cause of smaller family groups many couples have fewer children these day some prefer a single child of even no children at all because of economic reasons in the future there will be more and more families consisting of two parents with only ona or two children at mose or no children at all