Parents, Children and Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey

Contributing Organization(s): Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation


Author(s)/Creator(s): Victoria Rideout

Publishing Date: 2007-06-19

Issue Areas: Media; Children and Youth; Parenting and Families

Ownership/Rights Info: The Kaiser Family Foundation is non-profit, private operating foundation dedicated to providing information and analysis on health care issues to policymakers, the media, the health care community and the general public. The Foundation is not associated w

Parents say they are gaining control over their children's exposure to sex and violence in the media, but they remain more broadly concerned about inappropriate content in the media, according to a new national survey of parents released by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The report, Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey, is a national survey of 1,008 parents of children ages 2-17, along with a series of six focus groups held with parents across the country. The survey explores such issues as media content, media ratings and the V-Chip, media monitoring, educational media, advertising, and the Internet.

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Intended Audience: Advocates; College/University Professors; General Public; Legislators/Legislative Aids; Parents; Policy Professionals; Researchers; Teachers-elementary; Teachers-middle school; Teachers-high school

Type/Format: Dataset; Whitepaper; Policy Brief; FactSheet; Survey; Ethnography; CaseStudy; Testimonial; MovingImage; StillImage; InteractiveResource

Language code: English

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