It is common knowledge that nowadays, the Internet with all its features, alongside mobile phones, play a huge part in our lives, by helping us keep in touch with friends and family, tightening bonds or making sure they don’t fade away with time.

Nevertheless, now we have statistics to prove that technology really benefits family relationships, since a report stating that cellphones and the Web maintain social these has recently been published.

Pew Internet did research into the matter of Web use on various categories of people: families with children, singles, couples who don’t have children and adults who live together but are not related.

Results showed that married-with-children adults had more hi-tech devices in their homes than the rest of the groups the study looked at, with 89% of these traditional families having more than one mobile phone, while 66% of them had a high-speed Internet connection.

In addition, 58% of the nuclear families (a term that defines a family unit consisting of a mother and a father and their children) appeared to be more likely to have more than two computers in their homes.

The survey’s findings also revealed that 70% of the couples used their mobile phones to interact with each other daily, this implying that both partners owned such a gadget.

The percentage of parents who got in touch with their children on a daily basis via a cellphone was 42.

Another interesting result concerned Internet use, the study determining that 52% of married-with-children net users browsed the Web in the company of their family a few times a week.

Fifty-three percent of the people who participated in the survey said that hi-tech gadgets had improved their contact with distant family members, while 47% of them stated their relationships with the family members they lived with had benefitted from the new technology.