Why do families no longer eat at the table together?

Answer 1

Close your eyes and picture Family Dinner. June Cleaver is in an apron and pearls, Ward in a sweater and tie. The napkins are linen, the children are scrubbed, steam rises from the green-bean casserole, and even the dog listens intently to what is being said. This is where the tribe comes to transmit wisdom, embed expectations, confess, conspire, forgive, repair. The idealized version is as close to a regular worship service, with its litanies and lessons and blessings, as a family gets outside a sanctuary.

That ideal runs so strong and so deep in our culture and psyche that when experts talk about the value of family dinners, they may leave aside the clutter of contradictions. Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. Just because we are sitting together doesn't mean we have anything to say: children bicker and fidget and daydream; parents stew over the remains of the day. Often the richest conversations, the moments of genuine intimacy, take place somewhere else, in the car, say, on the way back from soccer at dusk, when the low light and lack of eye contact allow secrets to surface.

Answer 2

I grew up continuously eating dinner with the kinfolk (mothers and fathers, siblings) on the dinner table, no television. As an adult if I devour with a BF or on my own I have a tendency to devour in the front of the television or on the table with a television on or a workstation on, observing something. I watch videos or television shows. With a BF i could from time to time devour on the table except we rented a movie to observe. My kinfolk could many times communicate about their day or different random matters. We stay on the table till all and distinctive seems carried out eating, many times. So a million hour or a lot less.

Answer 3

I'm a 26 year old single mother I have 2 kids and whether I make a dinner from home or order out I sit down every single night with my kids and talk about how there day was or something exciting were doing or going. . But nowadays Americans are lazy or busy and eat on the go while driving walking etc

Answer 4

this is the 20th century the problem we have is society it has changed children no longer relate to there parents they have friends who do this for them so they would rather be out then indoors and parents have changed too would any one belive in a child swearing no defenatly not now adays all i hear is bad languge and that comes from 5 year olds up parents are to blame ( as they let them get away with it and anything for an easier life plus working to keep a family ) all of these are problems but things will eventually get worse in years to come

Answer 5

Because most families have 2 workiing parents and the world we live in is too hustle and bustle to be family friendly. It's really ashame because that's propably the only time an entire family gets to converse with one another.

Answer 6

Some families still do.

Some families don't because it's just not a priority to spend regular family time together. The priority is more on career, materialism, entertainment, etc.

Answer 7

Too busy playing video games, watching TV in various rooms, answering random questions online, chatting on cell phones, etc.

Also, the dining room can be a useful place to store extra stuff until you can find time to put it somewhere else.

Answer 8

Television.

Answer 9

ok my family does not eat at the table to gether because there are computer and they are much beter than back then so they saty on there computer like my mom me and my bro stay on the computer we cook for everyone get our food go to our computers and eat lol get it know

Answer 10

Our family still does, due to 2 parents who are not lazy and selfish like most others are.