“It’s so easy to keep in touch that you have no excuse to not call home on Mother’s Day,” said Judith Treas, director of UCI’s Center for Demographic and Social Analysis. Treas co-authored a recent study on the proliferation of cell phones and how it has affected familial relations.

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