A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless did not become pregn….

The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in the….

Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has ….

A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady vie….

In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children, and in ….

Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life avai….

Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The j….

It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the ….

The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but certain erosion of the….

[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the mate….