Youth Media Usage

A recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (2005) states that the average child between eight and 19 spends 6.5 hours a day with TV, the Internet, video games, radio, MP3 players, and other media. If you consider viewing more than one kind of media at a time, total media exposure adds up to 8.5 hours a day—equivalent to more than a 40-hour work week. In other words, children now spend more time consuming media than their parents spend at work.