Background TV found to have negative effect on parent-child interactions

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 06:42 in Psychology & Sociology

More than a third of American infants and toddlers live in homes where the television is on most or all the time, even if no one's watching. A new study looks for the first time at the effect of background TV on interactions between parents and young children - and finds that the effect is negative...

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