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Perhaps more imprtant than the lack of family outings is the destruction of family time(31)at home. Social scientists in the 1950s could not have (32) how much television would watch in the 1980s; the (33) American watches 6 hours of TV a day. That (34) little time for the special family characteristics and traditions that(35)to be formed during long evenings together. The time (36) to games, songs, and hobbies—all shared activities—in the(37)before TV is now dominated by the “tube”. And (38) damaging to family relationships is the elimination of the(39)for talking, chatting, arguing, discussing. Without such (40), family life disintegrates.