The Daily Telegraph reveals that, nowadays, many parents "simply switchon the computer" and log on to a parenting web site.
The author reckons that for many mothers, parenting message boards anddiscussion groups have become "their new bestfriend/mother-figure/health visitor/school teacher lumped into one".
But can people linked only by electrons substitute for the emotionalsupport real live friends can give? The Telegraph journalist seemsconvinced.
She writes of one mother asking: "Can someone send me a hug?" Forty-sixmessages followed, many containing ( ), the cyber equivalent of acuddle.
"I don't have time to sit at a toddler group," says another mother. Butwhat about the toddlers, who were a must-have feature of toddlergroups?
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