Parents Monitor Kids' Media

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WASHINGTON For all the hand-wringing policymakers do over television, parents say they are gaining control over what their kids watch, according to a survey released Tuesday.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s national survey of 1,008 parents of children ages 2-17, an overwhelming majority say they “closely” monitor their children’s media use, while only 18 percent say they “should do more.”

“While parents are still concerned about a lot of what they see in the media, most are surprisingly confident that they’ve got a handle on what their own kids are seeing and doing—even when it comes to the Internet,” said Vicky Rideout, vp and director of Kaiser’s Program for the Study of Entertainment Media and Health.



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