Backed by good and smart people, the movement to break America's addiction to television finds a sympathetic ear here. There are 102 million TV homes in this nation, and 41 percent of them have three or more sets. In the average home, the TV is turned on eight hours and eight minutes every day .
Women watch more than five hours a day.
No wonder we can't advance the cause of feminism and motherhood. We're glued to One Life to Live . Those numbers didn't come from an advocacy group like the TV-Turnoff Network, which is organizing next week's campaign, but from Jack Loftus at Nielsen Media Research. The network's data are even more absurd. This year, says TV-Turnoff, children in the United States will spend more time on average watching television than in school.