This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it.

Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic; the jewel in the crown.