Television Violence
With the recent outbreak of school shootings, there has been renewed publicconcern over how violence is depicted in the media, particularly on television. Studies have shown that a child has witnessed 8,000 murders on television before finishing elementary school. With this statistic in mind, I am going to define television violence, state some facts on how violence causes aggressive behavior in children and give some suggestions on how parents can decrease the amount of media violence in their home. "Television violence" usually refers to all the violence appearing on TV screens. It includes material broadcast over the air, distributed by cable and satellite systems, and available on videocassettes and disks. A common understanding or definition of what constitutes "television violence" could be useful in helping to examine and regulate the problem (Alter, pars. 4-5). Extensive viewing of television violence's by children causes greater aggressiveness. Sometimes, watching a single violent program can increase aggressiveness. Children who view shows in which violence is very realistic, frequently repeated or unpunished, are more likely to im
While most scientists are convinced that children can learn aggressive identification with a character substantially increases the likelihood that the states that "the evidence from more than 3,000 research studies over two decades Intellectual achievement. "Children of lower intellectual achievement restrict their children's viewing to more beneficial, as educational shows. Parents
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