Media giants or parents - just who is in charge?
According to a University of Maryland study, American children aged 2 to 18 now spend only 17 hours a week, on average, with their parents — "40% less time … than kids did in the mid-'60s," a decade in which the young were presumably so busy rebelling against their parents that they couldn't bear their company. But kids now spend "more than double that amount of time — 40 hours a week on average," [Jim Steyer, author of "The Other Parent"] says, "staring at the tube or the computer screen, listening to the radio or CDs and playing video games."
"Now, which is the parent in this picture?" Steyer asks.
Good question.
FCC leader wants study of effects of indecent TV
