Victor C. Strasburger and Barbara Jan Wilson. Children,Adolescents, & the Media. Thousand Oaks,CA: Sage, 2002, 560 pp., ISBN 9780761921257 (paperback)

Recent research shows parents manifest parental third-person perceptions on behalf of their children; that is, they believe their children are less affected by media sex and violence than other children. This study (N = 171) found parental third-person perceptions for materialism effects of television and parental first-person perceptions for advanced educational effects of public television. Perceptions of materialism effects on one's own and other children predicted parental mediation, whereas perceptions of education effects predicted support for regulations requiring more educational television.