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Today, smartphones, tablets, and the Internet have allowed people to conduct business from anywhere at any time. But as we continue to progress, many families find it harder to balance the ever-increasing demands of their work with their desire to care for and be with their family.

— Renee Ellmers

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent!

— Sherry Turkle

Life is about family and technology.

— Mark Goddard

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

— Kay Robertson

We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.

— Jan Koum

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

— Miranda Otto

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

— Julie Walters

It's hard to balance work and family.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.

— Brian J. White

My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

— Becki Newton

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't.

— Steve James

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