Television: A Very Expensive Babysitter

The author of this paper, Tiffany Adkins, adequately states and suggests

that television can be, and often is, a determing factor in the establishment of a

negative attitude in young children exposed to the incredible amount of violence

portrayed as ‘normal’ in the world today. For many years now, parents have

found the television set to be a replacement for the babysitter, allowing them to

go about their business uninterrupted by the child while costing them nothing.

It takes only an hour or so of watching television to know Ms. Adkins is

correct in her assessment of what we see on television. Not only is the violence

content overwhelming, but it is of such a graphic nature as to remove the horror

of seeing a fellow human being dismembered or gutted like a fish. Ms. Adkins

opinion regarding desensitization and aggression in children as a result of

watching television is futher proved by statistical information on the increa

unpunished, are more likely to imitate what they see. Children with emotional,

may lead to aggressive, antisocial, or criminal behavior; it does, however, usually work

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