TV Not to Blame

From a Reuters article on MSNBC:

In contrast to an earlier finding, it does not appear children who watch a lot of television wind up with behavior problems in school, researchers reported Monday. If there is an association, it may be that the exhausted parents of already overly active children are more likely to let them watch TV to give themselves a break, and not that TV itself leads to attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, the report from Texas Tech University in Lubbock said. "The results of the present study do not indicate the presence of an important relationship between television exposure and subsequent attention problems," said the study published in the March issue of "Pediatrics," the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. That finding conflicts with the conclusion of a 2004 study in the same journal, possibly because of differences in methodology, the authors said.