Televison Violence

Children today are more wild then ever. Fifty years ago you would not see a child talk back to there parents, use violence to get what they want, or curse at other children. We also are having more gang violence, school shootings, and over all more juvenile violence then we have had in past years. Does Violence on television promote actual violence? Studies have proven that violence on television is a main cause of actual violence. It is up to the media, parents, and the government to help combat this problem.

There have been numerous studies discussing the effects of television violence on children. In the 1970’s, programs for younger women such as “The Bionic Woman,” “Charlie’s Angles,” and “Wonder Woman” where used so that the younger girls would have a role model. A psychologist at the Aggression Research Group at the University of Michigan found that young girls who often watched shows featuring aggressive heroines in the 1970’s have grown up being more aggressive. The older girls get into more confrontations, shoving matches, chokings, and knifings then girls that watched little or none of the programs (APA HelpCenter). As you can see the problem goes b

The V-chip is another viable solution. The V-chip allows the parent to set what the child should watch. If the parent doesn’t want the child watching violence, they can simply make it so the child can only watch television with no violence. All these solutions would work. The only thing that is stopping this from working is that people want violence. There is no way to get around it, they pay to see violence. Once the population wants to see something different is when the problem will die down.

Parents need to regulate what the child should watches and parents should also invest in buying a V-chip so the child cannot be exposed to such violence.

ack even into the 1970’s. Ever since then the violence has been on a rise. When asked “Do you think violence on television promotes actual violence?” Phil Mayer responds “yes, because it desensitizes people, it portrays violence as an acceptable solution to resolving

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