families. Researchers asked 2,252 adults whether new technologies had (8) _______ the quality of communication with their family. Fifty-three percent said it increased communication with family (9) _______ they did not live with, two per cent said technology decreased this. Numbers were similar for those living in the same house as their family. The project director Lee Rainey said: "There's a new kind of connectedness being (10) _______ inside of families with these technologies". Survey co-author Barry Wellman agreed: "It used to (11) _______ [that] husbands went off to work, wives went off to a different job or else stayed home...and the kids went off to school...and not (12) _______ 5:30, 6 o'clock did they ever connect," he said.