From Korea, via the Telegraph, comes this horrible story of gaming gone wrong: a couple so addicted to their on-line life that they neglected their infant.  The truth is that when I worked as an attorney in Family Court I regularly ran into parents who had "ignored" their responsibilities as parents, often to the point of injury or death.  Usually it was crack, sometimes a new lover.   In every tragic case there was a "reason"; though I suspect the "reason" was only the catalyst.  The seeds of abuse and neglect are deeper than the particular vehicle the addict uses to plunge off the cliff.