Children's television is studded with violence, much of it darker and more realistic than when an anvil dropped on Wile E. Coyote's head, a watchdog group reported on Thursday. The Parents Television ...

From your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man to the Paw Patrol pups, the colourful characters on food packaging aren't just ...

Some estimates say the average preschooler sees more than 500 breakfast cereal commercials a year. And characters in those ads carry a lot of clout. "Early Show" Contributor Taryn Winter Brill ...

A new national study commissioned by TELETOON Retro counters the common perception of cartoons as parent substitutes and reveals cartoons support bonding, well-being and memory-building for families ...

A new study from the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, concluded that the incidence of vaping among young people is rising because of advertising for e-cigarettes using ...

Cartoons may be the reason your kids can’t sleep. A year-long study in the journal Pediatrics found kids ages three to five can be scared by Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner. Mike Eichenberg with Banner ...

CHICAGO — The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in ...

A study published today in the medical journal Pediatrics has concluded that preschool-aged children who watch fast-paced TV cartoons performed significantly worse on executive function (like ...

A new study has revealed just how disgustingly horny Australians really are, exposing the cartoon characters we find the most attractive. The study conducted by online dating comparison site Datingroo ...

(Health.com)-- Shrek, Dora the Explorer, and other animated TV and movie stars beloved by children have been moonlighting as junk-food pitchmen in recent years. And they're good at it. Fifty percent ...