Following recent discussion of close parent-undergraduate contact via mediated communication, this manuscript reports an empirical study of parental invasive behaviors and children's defensive behaviors. Results reveal patterns of parent/child boundary management via mediated communication, including decreased frequency of invasive/defensive behaviors than in a similar study by Petronio ( 1994 Petronio , S. ( 1994 ). Privacy binds in family interactions: The case of parental privacy invasion . In W. R. Cupach & B. H. Spitzberg (Eds.), The dark side of interpersonal communication (pp. 241 – 257 ). Hillsdale , NJ : Erlbaum . [Google Scholar] ). Telephone invasion at home was associated with invasions when away at college. Discussion of results considers how technology choices might alter the character of parent-child boundary management.

Can and will a person become an organ donor? Before such an altruistic act will occur, there is the ethic behind the action. There is an internalization of an ethic that the person agrees or disagrees with organ donation, no matter the variant. There is a large sense of agency and responsibility over the integrity of one’s body. We do care what our “network” thinks about our personally held norms of living donation and sanctity of the body. I present the position that understanding of the norms of living organ donation requires an examination of the personal social “network” surrounding the potential donor. Networks rely on connection which may lead to deliberate consensus building (or a reason to conform in order to limit disharmony). But I argue, even when there is a supportive social environment supporting a particular bioethical value, there will be some level of network level engagement with others in this process (for better or for worse).