My mother writes 2 to 3 times a month. I do call her up, too. Just like recharging my batteries. On family life, Austrians are a bit liberal. They also had babies without necessarily being married.
Children have also the right to defend themselves against abusive parents.
I know cases of Filipinos having children brought up in Austria, who were fined or brought to the court for hitting their children. Still, young people are liberated. Everywhere one sees young people embracing and kissing in train stations and streets. Austrians like to touch, feel and kiss. At social gatherings, people run to others and hug and put their cheeks against one another and kiss the air.