By age 70, typical American children will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives watching TV, the Academy said. Children are exposed to more than 14,000 sexual references in a year's time. If children are watching 21 hours of TV per week, this works out to one sexual reference every 5 minutes for the 1100 hours that the average child spends glued to the tube each year. The Academy blamed TV for some of the violence exhibited by some children. In a 1995 statement, the Academy pointed out that by age 18 the average American child has viewed an estimated 200,000 acts of violence on TV alone.
Video games increase that number.
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