Report Shows Media Play Enormous Role In Children's Lives
Children spend nearly the equivalent of an adult workweek—38 hours—awash in media ranging from television and movies to computers and magazines, according to a study released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
And that's not counting their use of media in school or for homework.
The report, titled "Kids & Media the New Millennium," was based on in-home interviews and written questionnaires and diaries completed between Nov. 10 of last year and April 20 of this year by a nationally representative sample of 3,155 children ages 2 to...
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