For Americans, watching television has become part of their daily routine. It has become a part of life for all ages of people. By age three, television viewing has become an event that the entire family can enjoy. television can take one from their living room to an imaginary fantasyland or expose violence only seen in one’s worse nightmare. This is a great step in technology for everyone; however, this does not deny the fact that many children are viewing the same content as their parents. Television exposes children to certain realities of life which they are not mature enough to understand. Violence in the media is causing a rise in our youth in becoming more violence, children are learning daily through cartoons and even the news broadcast systems that their parents watch, about the violence that can be found on television.

As stated before, children of all ages watch television. At a young age, many children are not aware that many of the events on television are not real. For this reason, children are known to idolize many of the people or characters that they view on television. Superman is a great role model for young boys and assuming the role of Cat Wom

Certain plot elements in portrayals of violence are considered high risk for children and should be evaluated by parents when judging possible program effects for children. Characterizations in which a person that is attractive commits the violent act are especially problematic because viewers may identify with such a character or idolize them. Other high-risk factors include showing violence as being justified, going unpunished, and having minimal consequences to the victim. Although it is the responsibility of the parents to monitor what their child is watching, the government has stepped in to change the presentation of violence on television. In the 1990’s the government passes the Television Act, the children’s television act, and the v-chip provision in the telecommunications to help monitor some of the violence on television. “A March 1997 study concluded that there has been no meaningful change in the presentation of violence on television between 1994-1996” (Liebowitz, 73).

James P. Steyer publicizes other examples of children and teens copying media violence in the book The Other Parent. He informs the reader that “Michael Carneal learned his murderous techniques from the movies Basketball Diaries. After he watched the film, he mused to a ninth-grader friend, ‘Wouldn’t it be neat to go in the school and shoot people you don’t like,’ like in the movie” (Steyer, 70). Another example Steyer uses is an honor middle school student in Moses Lake, Washington. A fourteen-year old, Barry Loukaitis, shot and killed his teacher and two classmates. He was impressed by the movie, Natural Born Killers. “He told a buddy it would be ‘pretty cool’ to go on a killing rampage like the movie characters” (Steyer, 70).

an is a dream to a young girl. If you take Batman, for example, he uses violence to create peace. He will fight the enemy using fists and weapons to create bloodshed. Many children find this as admirable. Then you take G. I. Joe shooting at his enemies with machine guns and blowing them up with land mines. Little children are already brought up thinking that the best way to deal with their problems is to use random acts of violence. These cartoon characters can save the world in one episode, yet their violent acts, though for a good cause, are provoking some children to fight expecting to become a hero. Many young children do not understand that concept of “good guys” and may perceive fighting as honorable. Wendy Fontanazza, the mother of a five-year-old stated, “After watching Cartoon Network, my son became

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