Violence on Television 2
The Power Rangers, Batman and Robin, and the six O'clock news; what do all these television programs have in common? They all show violence on television which children tend to imitate. What children observe on television is not beneficial to their lives. They cannot determine if this imitated behavior is right or wrong. Violence on television displays wrong doing to children and infers that the actions characters perform are allowed in society. This is why I feel that violence on television has a detrimental effect on children ages three to ten. I am not saying that all television programming is detrimental to all of today's youth, only that most of the television programming is harmful for those ages three to ten to view. These children do not need to see violence every time they turn on the television. Young people have no idea how to interpret what they watch on television. It is proven that "only five years after television was first introduced in the United States, violent crimes increased 25 percent" (Abelman, 1992, p.5). "The average American preschooler watches more than twenty-seven hours of television per week"(Abelman, 1992, p. 4). With these averages being so high, children should be watching television pro
Jason, Leonard A. Ph.D. A New Approach to Help Children Responsibly Watch Television. (1997, February) [Online]. Available: http://condor.deppaul.edu/%7eljson/ad.html3/7/97 [1998, March 20]. Three different studies were conducted by Brandon Centerwall, William Belson, and (Leonard Eron and Rowell Huesmann) in which they found television was harmful to the behavior of adolescence. Olson, Randy M. The Origins of Television. (1997) [Online]. Available. http://www.vist.com/accesstv/history [1998, March 20] Huston, Aletha Ph.D. Violence on Television. (1992, June) [Online]. Available: http://www.sofcom.com.au/ TV/violence.html [1998, March 20]. grams that will benefit their learning processes rather then teach them improper lessons in life. Some lessons include physically fighting over the remote from Beavis and Butthead and trying stunts from the Power Rangers. "William Belson studied 1,565 teenage boys and found that those who had watched above-average quantities of television violence before adolescence were committing acts of serious violence 49 percent higher than boys who watched below average quantities of television violence"(Jason 1997). Leonard Eron and Rowell Huesmann, professors at the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan said that, "the amount of television watched at age eight predicted the seriousness of criminal acts for which they were convicted by age thirty" (Jason 1997). These three studies prove that because of violence on television children lead more violent lives. It appears that television has made children view a world where aggression and violence are seen as the normal way to resolve a conflict. Since children are visual learners, they model both the positive and negative behaviors they see on television. They observe and learn that it is acceptable to use violence to resolve conflicts. "When childr
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