Television Violence
Does television violence have a negative effect on today’s youth? Children are exposed to more media today than ever before. Children often imitate what they see around them. There is research that suggests that children who are exposed to high levels of media violence are more likely to be aggressive and less likely to solve problems effectively. Children watch an average of twenty-eight hours of television per week. By the time a child is twelve-year old, he/she will have seen over eight thousand murders on television. A prime time show includes three to five violent acts per hour, while a Saturday morning cartoon shows between twenty and twenty-five per hour (Tepperman 1). It has been proven that a child who is exposed to extreme violence has been rated to be very poor by their teachers and peers. They have fewer problem-solving skills and are statistically more likely to become involved in a crime as teenagers and young adults (Beckman 1). Children are visual learners and are highly susceptible to the environment surrounding them. They model both the positive and negative behavior that they see. A child who sees a lot of violence views aggressive behavior as acceptable. Even when the “good guys” per
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