研究:女孩和母親關係更親密

Up to 39 percent of women under 50 talk to their mothers every day, according to a study. And one in three talks to them once or twice a week, with many dialing their mum's number whenever they are in need of advice or support.

The close communication owes much to technology, which has made "chatting" by phone, text or email much easier.

Only 14 percent of daughters see their mothers on a daily basis and one in three sees them once or twice a week, with 33 percent saying geography stopped them making more frequent visits.

The survey also found that 43 percent of the 2,000 women questioned relied on their mothers for general advice the most.

Emma Soames, from Saga Magazine, said: "Older women are now so much younger in their attitudes than previous generations so the generation gap has diminished and formal rules of upbringing which saw children seen but not heard have completely disappeared."

研究表明，有39%的50歲以下女性每日都會和母親聯繫。而一週同母親聯繫1次到兩次者佔了1/3，許多人都是一需要建議或幫助就撥通了媽媽的電話。

電話、短信、電郵這些通訊技術讓“聊天”變得更加容易。

而只有14%的女兒們每日都會與母親照面，1/3者一週“面聖”1到2次，33%的人則稱因爲地理原因，無法經常探望母親。

調查還發現，受調查的2000名女性中，43%的人對母親的建議最爲依賴。

《傳奇》雜誌的艾瑪索姆斯稱：“如今，年長的女性心態比前輩們更年輕，代溝逐漸填平，之前只看表象不傾聽孩子聲音的教育方式也消弭殆盡。”