According to surveys on the French population's cultural practices, the audio-visual media play an increasingly important part in adults' leisure activities. What about the youth? Drawing on a survey from 2001-2002 on a representative sample of 6 to 14-year-olds, this article attempts to answer that question by presenting data on this age-group's relationship with television, music, radio, video games and computers. The author focuses on family interactions around the media, taking into account the following three main dimensions in relation to age, gender and family background: allocation of family resources to equip young teenagers; role of media consumption in intra-family inter-personal relations; and nature of that interaction. The media are thus set in 'households' moral economy'? which combines shared consumption with forms of control over use of the media.