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

- Marie Winn

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

- Marie Winn

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

- Marie Winn

[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…

- Marie Winn

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…

- Marie Winn

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…

- Marie Winn

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 …

- Marie Winn

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 …

- Marie Winn

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

- Marie Winn