Some 59% of parents in the US who use social media say they have come across useful information about parenting in the last 30 days on online social networks, according to a recent report the Pew Research Center.
Mothers are particularly likely to have found useful parenting information on social media, with 66% saying they have done so in the last 30 days, compared with 48% of fathers.
The report was based on data from a survey conducted in 2014 of 1,235 parents in the United States who use social media.
Some 42% of respondents say they have received social or emotional support from their online networks about a parenting issue in the last 30 days (50% of mothers, compared with 28% of fathers).
Nearly a third (31%) of parents who use social media say they have posed parenting questions to their online networks in the last 30 days (mothers and fathers are equally likely to have done so)…
