Whois & Analysis for circleofmoms.com

A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.

Some of the most pervasive virtual communities are online communities operating under social networking services.

Parenting or child rearing is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, financial, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.

Parenting refers to the aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship.

A mother is the female parent of a child.

Mothers are women who inhabit or perform the role of bearing some relation to their children, who may or may not be their biological offspring.

Thus, dependent on the context, women can be considered mothers by virtue of having given birth, by raising their child(ren), supplying their ovum for fertilisation, or some combination thereof.

Such conditions provide a way of delineating the concept of motherhood, or the state of being a mother.

Women who meet the third and first categories usually fall under the terms 'birth mother' or 'biological mother', regardless of whether the individual in question goes on to parent their child.

Accordingly, a woman who meets only the second condition may be considered an adoptive mother, and those who meet only the third a surrogacy mother.

In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic.

Members with the same issues can come together for sharing coping strategies, to feel more empowered and for a sense of community.

The help may take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to and accepting others' experiences, providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks.

A support group may also work to inform the public or engage in advocacy.

In the social sciences, a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.

Other theorists disagree however, and are wary of definitions which stress the importance of interdependence or objective similarity.

Instead, researchers within the social identity tradition generally define it as "a group is defined in terms of those who identify themselves as members of the group".

Regardless, social groups come in a myriad of sizes and varieties.

For example, a society can be viewed as a large social group.