Although most people look at television as an entertaining and educational way to spend time, some people think there is too much violence in television and that is influencing our young into becoming aggressive in nature and to tolerate violence. Now scientists have discovered that all the violence in television can in fact mold a young innocent person into becoming a monster right under our eyes, just by watching television. It might sound crazy, but when you think about it, it is not. Most people like the thrill of violence. Why do you think "Natural Born Killers" and "Friday the 13th" were so popular? What do you think goes through children's mind when the bad guy is shot dead by the good guy and everyone applauds. He or she learns that it's fine to hurt someone as long as they are bad, so if Cousin Joey takes my toy its O.K. to hit him because his bad. This type of behavior can produce a false idea in children's mind of how the real world deals with criminals.

Acts of violence are committed everyday by High school and even Elementary school kids. Psychologists and Scientist have been trying to figure out what is causing these violent acts among our y

University of Michigan psychologists Dr. Leonard Eron and Dr. Rowell Huesmann conducted a study, which continued for decades. They studied the effects of media violence on 875 youngsters in grades 1 through 3, and found that children's behavior was influenced by television, especially if the youngsters were heavy viewers of violent programming. They checked back with these kids 11 and 22 years later. They found the aggressive eight-year-olds grew up to become even more aggressive. The most frightening results that they found was that their children also showed the same if not more sign of aggression as their parents (Eron, Gentry, & Schlegel, 1994).

ouths and how to stop it. They have been researching television violence and how it affects our children's behavior for many years and knows that the more violence a child watches the more violent that child reacts. Many of the

They may never find all the answers, but scientist are trying to explain how television violence promotes children's aggressive behavior, that continues into adulthood. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, this type of aggressive behavior is a learned behavior which is being taught to our children by the media violence that they are exposed day after day. Everyday we see crimes being committed through the cameras of our local news stations. Th

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