Preface	p. ix
Media and the Family	p. 1
Patterns of Family Life and Television Consumption from to the 1990s	p. 19
Family Images and Family Actions as Presented in the Media: Where We'Ve Been and What We'Ve Found	p. 37
The Effect of Media on Family Interaction	p. 51
References	p. 58
Media Implications for the Quality Offamily Life	p. 61
Developmental and Educational Implications	p. 71
Educating Children with Television: The Forms of the Medium	p. 73
Strategies for the 1990s: Using the Media for Good	p. 85
Evaluating the Classroom Viewing of a Television Series: Degrassi Junior High""""""""	p. 97
Media Influences and Personality Development: The Inner Image and the Outer World	p. 117
Effects of Violence and Horror	p. 129
Television, Films, and the Emotional Life of Children	p. 131
Confronting Children's Fright Responses to Mass Media	p. 139
Television and Aggression: Recent Developments in Research and Theory	p. 151
Sexual Content and Family Context	p. 163
Contenttrends in Media Sex	p. 165
Effects of Massiveexposure to Sexually Oriented Prime-Time Television Programming on Adolescents' Moral Judgment	p. 183
Effects of erotica and Pornography	p. 197
Erotica and Family Values	p. 199
Pornography and Sexual Callousness: The Perceptual and Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Pornography	p. 215
Pornography Effects: Empirical and Clinical Evidence	p. 229
Pornography Addiction and Compulsive Sexual Behavior	p. 249
A Systematic Review of the Effects of Aggressive and Nonaggressive Pornography	p. 271
Social Awareness and Public Policy	p. 311
Child Pornography in Erotic Magazines, Social Awareness, and Self-Censorship	p. 313
Research, Public Policy, and Law: Combination for Change	p. 327
Author Index	p. 341
Subject Index	p. 349
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