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U.S. Kids Using Media Almost 8 Hours a Day

The amount of time American children and teens spend watching TV, playing video games or surfing the Internet has increased dramatically, to almost eight hours a day, a new report finds.. Cell phones are now multimedia devices, so kids on the go ...
A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows a "dramatic" The report, which was released Wednesday, showed that 8- to 18-year-olds "devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes to using entertainment media across a typical day. The study looked ...