In an information-based society, nuclear families also have the following technological characteristic:

In an information-based society, nuclear families take on the technological characteristic of mediation.

Their relations and activities come to be increasingly conducted through communication technologies.

Separation names a splitting apart and is not the technological trait ascribed to such families.

Contraction describes shrinking in size and is not the mediating quality highlighted here.

Indolence means idleness and has no bearing on the technological character of the family.

Mediation captures how technology comes to stand between and organise family communication.

This mediated family life is a mark of the information society.