Adele Horin sends the kids outside to play.
Nothing is more annoying than the sight of an adolescent watching television.
Comatose, expressionless, the adolescent seems incapable of movement, let alone violent action. It is the parent, confronted by this vision hour after hour, who feels ready to commit mayhem. No-one, as far as I know, has researched the effects on parents of living with an adolescent TV addict. Yet parental over-exposure to this vile sight may help explain rising levels of child abuse and domestic violence. What gets studied instead is the effect on children of vile television programs.