Now days when most children get home from school they turn on the television and watch whatever is on. A lot of times it turns out to be violent programming such as Power Rangers that children watch. Since most of the networks constantly have violent shows geared towards children. After children repeatedly see television violence they start to think that what they see on television is what goes on in real life. Since children watch so much violent television, that over time children will become desensitized to violence.
Television has a huge impact on a child’s life because most kids now see it as a role model they can turn to. As a result of this kids watch more television. Children under the age of 12 watch about 23 hours of TV in an average week. Most teenagers have watched around 15,000 hours of TV. The more television a children watches the more like he is to be exposed to even more television violence. It can lead to psychological problems of distinguishing reality from fiction in m
The National Television Violence study is one of the most in depth studies conducted for the violence subject. Over the last few years they have gathered data that has shown that violence affects children directly. They have proven that the more time children spend watching violent television shows the more of a chance they have of becoming a violent person and becoming desensitized to dangerous consequences of violence.