Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV

An anonymous reader sends this quote from The Guardian: "Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol, on the amount of time children spend watching screens – and under-threes should be kept away from the television altogether, according to a paper in an influential medical journal published on Tuesday. A review of the evidence in the Archives Of Disease in Childhood says children's obsession with TV, computers and screen games is causing developmental damage as well as long-term physical harm. Doctors at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which co-owns the journal with the British Medical Journal group, say they are concerned."

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Re:First sentence is a doozy.

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No, poverty is a choice. There's no shame in being poor, but it should be extremely shameful to stay poor. Opportunity is everywhere if you're not too lazy to grab it. The key is education, and anybody who wants to learn will find a way no matter their circumstances.

If you divided all the money in the country evenly amongst all the people, in a year or two you'd have rich people and poor people. That's human nature and nobody can change it.