From today’s Chicago Sun-Times…

A family that texts together, stays together. Or at least it stays in touch better.

Today’s families with minor children are much more likely than any other household types to have cell phones and use the Internet, a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports.

The study, by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, also found:

• • About 89 percent of married (or partnered) parents own multiple cell phones.

• • 66 percent have high-speed home Internet connections (U.S. average: 52 percent).

• • 70 percent of couples in which both partners have cell phones contact each other daily just to say hi, 64 percent contact each other to coordinate schedules and 42 percent of parents contact children daily using a cell phone.

Read the entire story in the Chicago Sun-Times, and more about the study on Pew’s Web site.

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