Over recent years, screen time has become a more complicated concept, with an ever‐
expanding variety of electronic media devices available throughout the world. Television …

Youth spend an average of> 7 hours/day using media, and the vast majority of them have
access to a bedroom television, computer, the Internet, a video-game console, and a cell …

Media, from television to the “new media”(including cell phones, iPads, and social media),
are a dominant force in children's lives. Although television is still the predominant medium …

Screen‐media use among young children is highly prevalent, disproportionately high
among children from lower‐income families and racial/ethnic minorities, and may have …

True, media violence is not likely to turn an otherwise fine child into a violent criminal. But,
just as every cigarette one smokes increases a little bit the likelihood of a lung tumor …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of parental television viewing on children's television
viewing compared with traditional predictors such as household television access, parental …

Mobile technology devices continue to develop and change, creating increased opportunity
for use by children. However, parents remain wary of screen time and question the benefits …

Major findings concerning the nature and impact of sexual content in mainstream
entertainment media, with a focus on empirical studies and content analyses (published …

Drawing on family development theory, this study provides insight into how family stages
with and without siblings are related to media habits and effects. Two national samples (N …

Portrayals of sexual relationships in mainstream media are prevalent and complex. Content
analyses estimate that sexual content appears in approximately 85% of major motion …