ABSTRACT
The social changes that followed the shift from traditional to modern society have given the family a great deal of “leisure” time to be filled in the home (Laslett, 1973; Sennett, 1970). For several decades, the family’s use of this time has been dominated by television, which is deeply interwoven into the fabric of daily family life (Leichter et al., 1985; Morley, 1986).
