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Study: TV common at home-based day care

Some child care providers on Long Island were alarmed to learn of a new study finding that children in home-based day care settings are watching twice as much television as previously thought.

"That is outrageous," said Kathleen Roche, executive director of Rainbow Chimes Early Education centers in Huntington. "Television shouldn't be used at all."

Television viewing is appropriate in...

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