I think this is an issue of our modern world. We live fast, the Earth moves fast, days go by fast, everthing is faster than before. In the past, only the dad used to work the whole day, but today the mum also works so the family could survive OR catch up with the today's modern world.
However, what about the kids? Parents have today not much time to spend with children, so they use modern methods and ways to handle with them. They either employe a nanny or send their children to creche. At night, uncommunication continues. Parents got mostly tired when they come from work so they follow the easy way to solve the problem: TV - another modern world thing. They let their children sit in front of it and the child communicates with the screen.. I don't say this is the same in all families, but we may quite agree that this is a common family type nowadays.
Of course, that is not OK at all. It is even awful to my point of view. Families should absolutely spend some time with their children, otherwise children tend to get mentally seperated from the family. If two people do not communicate, they get likely to ignore each other because they even do not have anything in common - what should they talk about or what should they share with each other? And such a case could also emerge in a family between the parents and the kids.
On the other hand, I cannot blame the techlonogy for all that. Technology also brings many advantages. It also has good effects on children - for example visuality. I think that the alienation in the family mostly depends on it's members. It is up to parents if the children feel lonely or seperated. If parents come into children's room and start a conversation with them, the children could indeed stop being busy with the device and join to the conversation.
In this post, I've talked about the subject from the parents-children side :)
* Figure 1, Earbuds, (2009). Note: Copyright Peter Gerdes (made available under a Creative Commons licence)
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