Poor
me, poor us. I prefer empirical evidence to religious belief,
sentimentality and ideology and I assume most of my blog readers do
too.
So (a) I have friends who have family members with autism who hate the idea that parents could be a cause of autism and (b) I have read the definitive and brilliant paper by Waldman, Nicholson and Adlov that shows autism correlates with being indoors due to rain and being indoors correlates with TV watching by children.
Until a better explanation of these correlations comes along, I'm forced to say, keep your young children away from TV as much as possible until they have clearly passed the stage where autistic symptoms arise.