Yes

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  by Tennessee Grace

  Created on: August 16, 2007

  Promise not to write me off as crazy before you read on. I was raised in a home without television....and

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  by Peter Degen-Portnoy

  Created on: May 22, 2007

  My wife and I have been raising our five children without broadcast or cable television, but do allow

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  by Mothiur Rahman

  Created on: May 15, 2009

  When we look at human history, one of the things that we notice prevalent in most societies, was the

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  by Anne O'Rourke

  Created on: August 16, 2009

  The average American watches five hours of television a day according to a 2009 report by the Nielsen

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  by Maria Rogers

  Created on: June 19, 2009

  Most definitely, and without a doubt. There is nothing but garbage on television these days anyway.

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  by Lewis J Rhodes

  Created on: December 20, 2008

  If television improved the society in which we live, I would have voted yes! Unfortunately this media

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  by Kessie Carroll

  Created on: March 16, 2009   Last Updated: September 08, 2009

  This is a loaded question. Should children be raised without access to television, such as cable TV?

• 8 of 87

  by Hannah Curtis

  Created on: August 05, 2008

  Television should never be used as a babysitter in my opinion; in fact I argue that there is a good

• 9 of 87

  by Joeseph C. Byrnes

  Created on: August 31, 2007

  Several years ago, I worked my way through college as a law-enforcement officer. During those years

• 10 of 87

  by Sophia Paradeisi

  Created on: August 31, 2007   Last Updated: November 07, 2009

  We have lived with and without a TV. Here are my observations.

  We are now living in Sydney Australia

• 11 of 87

  by Eugene Pitout

  Created on: May 14, 2009

  Some people worry about the suffering of poor people and people in concentration camps etc. I worry

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  by Alexandra Pollard

  Created on: April 04, 2009   Last Updated: April 06, 2009

  Children are the most precious thing most people ever get in their lives. Here we have a human mind

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  by Kenneth Young

  Created on: November 18, 2007   Last Updated: October 26, 2010

  Whether not not children should be raised without television is a question Ive frequently asked myself,

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  by Candace Williams

  Created on: July 19, 2008   Last Updated: September 09, 2008

  Television is to brains as candy bars are to bodies. There is some good feeding there but it is packaged

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  by Megan Risley

  Created on: February 21, 2009

  Televisions are not people. And, it has been proven over and over again how important - how life-and-death

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  by Maggie West

  Created on: November 17, 2008   Last Updated: December 26, 2008

  Perhaps, the question should be, "How much of our children's upbringing are we willing to entrust to

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  by Marjorie Rothenberg

  Created on: February 14, 2008

  As a 50+-year old mom of an active 9-year old boy, I feel uniquely qualified to give a resounding "yes"

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  by Carla Raley

  Created on: August 06, 2009

  As an older mother with ten children, ages 33, 30, 23, 21, 18, 15, 12, 5, 4, and 2, I have done both.

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  by S E Nelson

  Created on: October 30, 2007

  Finding the right balance between family time, work, school, sports and other activities can be challenging

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  by Mary Bubbins

  Created on: November 18, 2007   Last Updated: January 17, 2012

  Although I am voting yes to this debate, I must admit that not all television is bad for children as