Media Violence And Its Effects On Children
A major topic of conversation nowadays is whether or not violence on television causes children to behave more violently. Shortly after I began to research this topic, I realized that it is not a clear cut issue. Evidence can be easily found to support each position, but without a doubt, violent TV increases the likelihood that a child will behave in a more violent manor.
The United States has shown to be the most violent nation in the world. Each generation is being exposed to more and more media on a daily basis. Television is the most common activity in a child's life with the exception of sleeping. With that, generation to generation is showing more and more violent acts done by children and teens than ever before. Many studies have shown that children who observe media violence tend to behave more aggressively than the children did who were in the control groups. Violence in television programs in today's modern world is very popular and easily susceptible to children. Children have access to many different forms of stimuli. Some of which are positive and some are negative. This stimuli needs to be strictly monitored in a child's life, and not much is being done to do that. For instance, instead of just seeing a police officer handing a ticket to a speeding violator, he can beat the offender bloody on television. However, children don't always realize this is not the way things are handled in real life. They come to expect it, and when they don't see it the world becomes bland and in need of violence. The children then can create the violence that their mind craves. The television violence can cause actual violence in a number of ways. As explained above, after viewing television violence the world becomes bland in comparison. The child needs to create violence to keep himself satisfied. Also the children find the violent characters on television fun to imitate. Children do imitate the behavior of models such as those portrayed in television, movies,...
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