According to Dictionary.com refuge is “anything resorted to for help, relief or escape”. It is clear that adults take refuge in their cell phones in public situations, but the scene described above is that of a child taking refuge in their cell phones at home. Children should be able to take refuge in their parents. Cell phones are damaging the delicate relationship between child and parent. If children learn from an early age to take refuge in their cell phones, when they are older and have serious problems they will not be able to talk comfortably with their parents. Some might say that technology has brought us closer: “The presence of the cell phone, which makes a special ring if my daughter calls, keeps me on alert all day” (Turkle 122). Cell phones allow for constant connection with family members in an emergency, but people have become too attached to their cell phones. A television producer, accustomed to being connected to the world via her cell phone and Palm device, revealed that for her, the interior spaces of the Palm were where she resides: “When my Palm crashed it was like a death. It was more than I could bear. I felt like I had lost my mind. (qtd. in Turkle