The virtual family: Does technology help or hinder family life?

A recent study by the Barna Institute finds technology’s impact on family life depends on existing dynamics within the household – on its own, technology is neither good nor bad.

June 15, 2011 | by Catherine Benesch , Researcher, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

  1. Barna Group. (2011). How technology is influencing families. Retrieved June 14 from
    http://www.barna.org/family-kids-articles/488-how-technology-is-influencing-families.
  2. Tapscott, D. (2009). Grown up digital: how the net generation is changing your world. Toronto: McGraw Hill, p. 28.
  3. Statistics Canada. (2010). Canadian internet use survey. The Daily. Retrieved June 6, 2011 from http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/110525/t110525b1-eng.htm
  4. Whitefield, N. and Schwartz, K. (2008). The wired world of families: Youth, their parents, and the media. Ottawa: Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Retrieved June 6, 2011 from http://www.imfcanada.org/issues/wired-world-of-families
  5. Ibid.
  6. Turel, O., Serenko, A., Bontis, N. (March 2011). Family and work-related consequences of addiction to organizational pervasive technologies. Information & Management, 48 (2-3), pp. 88-95.
  7. Ibid.