Media+and+It's+Negative+Impact+Towards+Family+Relationships

=Internet, Television and Video Game's negative affects on Families =  Jennifer Lacko & Chris Kology "A 2003 survey of parents by the Kaiser Family Television is also impacting the Foundation found that 26 percent of children under age two have TVs in their bedrooms. On any given day, 68 percent of children under two will sit in front of a screen and will spend an average of two hours and five minutes doing so, the Kaiser survey reported. The study also found that a third of children live in households where the television is left on all or most of the time."

“Roughly half of parents say they limit video game playing time and check ratings to select game purchases,” the Kaiser Foundation reports, “but only 13 percent of kids report time limits and fewer (7 percent) say their parents did not allow them to purchase a game because of its rating."
 * - Based of this quote from Tech Tonic, we feel that it is evident that television is impacting the relationship between children and their parents, starting at the age of two. Television is also impacting the relationship between children and their parents when it is constantly left on; resulting in a replacement of human communication within families.**


 * - Due to disinterest among parents and their child's video game usage, very many children are partaking in adult-oriented video games; demonstrating a lack of interest between parents and their children, creating a negative impact within households.**

"A majority of parents say they enforce time limits on internet use, surf together, and check up on sites their children have visited, but most teens say they do not have time limits or go online with their parents, and less than one-third believe their parents have ever checked where they have gone online.”


 * - Though parents have stated that they have enforced restrictions on their child's internet use, in reality many parents don't enforce internet rules; which is another example of a growing gap between parents and children.**


 * Work Cited:**

Alliance for childhood. (2004). W//hat's wrong with a hightech childhood?.// college park, MD.