The Daily Telegraph reveals that, nowadays, many parents "simply switch on the computer" and log on to a parenting web site. The author reckons that for many mothers, parenting message boards and discussion groups have become "their new best friend/mother-figure/health visitor/school teacher lumped into one". But can people linked only by electrons substitute for the emotional support real live friends can give? The Telegraph journalist seems convinced. She writes of one mother asking: "Can someone send me...