Those kinds of shows that lead to children thinking that they can do anything can cause harm to some children. ... Children who see this act of violence can sometimes think its ok to do what other children have initiated on television. Not only violence can lead to negative actions as kids, watching sex at an early age may influence one to engage in sex at an early age. ... Television is not the only source to blame; actions that are seen around the household can lead to bad influences. ... In conclusion, even though television may have a bad effect on children, it can also have a positive ...

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However, according to CPCS, the main reasons are "due to family violence, peer influence, economic factor and family disintegration" (2016, section 4). Solutions to the problem of street children can be carried out through the local level to the national and international level by looking for a family who is willing to adopt them, schools which can provide them free education or influence them to return back to their family. ... Furthermore, children are the wealth of the nation. ... Children are the future of the nation. ... Nevertheless, children are the future of the nation, if we...

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Also, cartoons, which appeal mainly to young children, may use large amounts of violence in order to keep children's interest. ... Teens may be have the ability to recognize TV violence as being fictitious but younger children lack this ability and are easily influenced by the violence that they see. ... This long-existing bad habit has been a major contribution to the amount overweight and obese children in America. ... In conclusion, although television can be both entertaining and educational, it can also teach children and teens bad habits that stay with them their whole lives. ... ...

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High School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence? High School Athletics: Good or Bad Imfluence? ... This influence may seem good at the time but later turns into a bad influence, which could end in the student dropping out of school. ... When children reach the age where they decide they want to get involved in sports it starts out pure. ... Children have no pressure to make the team or to win every game; they play to have fun not to win. ...

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Influence of the Media In today's society parents are not held responsible for raising their children. ... Parents have a lot more influence on their children than the media. ... I believe if you raise a child in this way, then the media won't influence them. ... The media's job in this matter is to inform the parents as to which shows are good or bad for their children to watch. ... I think that the influence of education and parenting is what matters most. ...

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Good and bad points always accompany any man-made invention. ... Television causes violence in children. ... Children mimic what they see. ... Now the question is how TV violence affects children. ... If he can learn at an early age that violence on television is bad, then he can turn the set off for himself when he is older. ...

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Parents and Children "Shut-up", "Get out of my face", "I am too busy". Ask yourself, "Are these words that come from the mouths of children or parents?" ... Parents should first of all try to remember each and every day why they decided to have children and how blessed they are to have them. ... Children are not the ones to blame for their bad attitudes, bad habits or bad marks, the parents are. Sometimes also the peers leave bad influence, but still I would like to write only about parents and children relationship. ...

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Surely not only Mark Leyner is influenced by TV, but also everyone. ... The influence is so huge that it changes the personality. Especially children get immense problems in school. ... Because of that the PISA-studies were so bad in Germany. ... Because children look more and more TV they get also eye problems. ...

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The Influence of Rap Music Rap music has many negative influences in our culture and society today. ... The criterion to bad rap music is explicit lyrics and negative influences on the youth today. ... This line influences fans of Cypress Hill to smoke marijuana. ... According to the Children's Defense Fund, Rap music is one of the main factors that have lead to the death of ten children and teens everyday. ... This is teaching the children of today that this is how you deal with conflict. ...

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Locke and Newcomb (2004) state that, "Adverse childhood experiences influence later drug use. Individuals maltreated as children often report subsequent drug use. ... Locke and Newcomb (2004), add that "Overall, it appears that drug-using parents are more likely to lead unconventional lifestyles and endorse nonconventional values, and these values influence their role and functioning as parents. ... Many problems have been identified with adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs). ... Indeed, the bad effects of alcoholic parents became apparent long before adulthood, as examined by Berkowitz ...

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By regulating the content a child sees on the Internet we can avoid the risks of children being cyber- bullied, influenced by negative role models, and prevent connections that can cause harm to a child's privacy. ... Raj Samani, online safety expert at McAfee, the company that jointly commissioned the survey, said, "as a father myself, it's worrying that parents are unknowingly enabling their children's bad behavior online. ... In Peter Bower's "Growing up in an online world: The impact of the Internet on children and young people: the Internet is helping to sh...

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The first major effect for increased intolerance of children exhibiting "bad behavior" may deal with the social aspect of the child and their community. ... As children, you may injure someone with your hand or toy. ... It could be believed that intolerance of children displaying "bad behaviors" has increased due to the amount of violent tragedies our world has faced recently. ... Children are easily influenced and often times imitate exactly what they see others doing. ... These reasons include the physical aspect of harming someone else, the social aspect of influencing ...

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As a proverb says, "a burnt child dreads the fire," which means bad experiences make people think more and try to rationalize mistakes they have made. Students should understand that they can learn from their mistakes and nothing is bad if they make a mistake once. ... For example, if a father is an accountant, he might influence his son's decision to choose a major related to accounting because he is a successful accountant. ... Some parents do not have enough time to spend with children. ... This lack of attention or care causes children to feel frustrated. ...

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Media's Importance to Society, In Spite of Adverse Effects It has been said that the media is a bad influence on society. This is true in some cases, but we have to also add this to the statement; society also influences the media by what it chooses to promote or watch. ... Society, at least the past few generations have always had an influence from media in some form or another. ... Studies have found that by the age of sixteen years, most children have watched more television than they have spent time in school (Witt 322). ... She states that media can be a positive influence when...

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Consequently, they tend to gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems by imitating the violence they observe on television by identifying with characters, good or bad. ... Are children naturally bad or, are they products of their environment? ... In it he explains behavior in terms of continuous reciprocal interaction between cognitive, behavioral and environmental influences of the individual. ... More than one third of program's feature bad characters that aren't punished and physical aggression is condoned, and more than 70% of aggressors show no remorse for violent a...

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Children, Television, and Violence TV violence may influence children more than most people are aware of. ... The network broadcasters need to decrease the violence because it often confuses children, and as we all know children are visual learners. ... Children do not seem to have a full grasp of the real world and the situations it may involve. ... If you pay attention to these programs, it seems as though half, if not more, of "bad" characters shown, do not get caught or never get seen being punished or doing time for what they had done. On the contrary to the bad characters, "good...

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Unfortunately the ones who suffer the most are the children. ... Divorce can emotionally scar children causing fears of betrayal, abandonment, loss, and rejection. ... Teenagers are young and prone to make bad decisions. ... Leaving the child to feel alienated or unloved When that happens, teenagers find themselves seeking attention, which in many cases puts them around bad influences. ... This affects the children both psychologically and sociologically. ...

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(Children and Media Violence, n.d.) Since, exposure to violence causes aggressiveness, trauma, and desensitization, watching TV is bad for children. ... Most children also have a hard time distinguishing fantasy from reality that is why watching TV causes trauma on children. ... Shows with positive role models can be good influences to the children. ... Violence already cannot be prevented on television programs that is why watching television is bad for children because it causes aggressiveness, trauma, and desensitization. ...

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Those who are exposed to it may often exhibit bad behavioral traits picked up off of television shows. ... This may not seem like a problem, but TV is a big influence on people's social behaviors. ... These flaws in the television world can influence people and children in the real world into thinking violence and aggressive behavior is not so bad. ... Children are the most impressionable out of all people. ... This will make becoming desensitized to violence harder and hopefully children will realize violence is bad and think before acting with aggression. ...

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In order to increase profitability, some producers create shows without any regard if the show positively or negatively influence a child. ... Most children mimic what they watch and at times do not understand if they are copying something good or bad. ... Kunkel and Gantz (1993) acknowledge that "Children lack the requisite mental capacities for mature decision-making, and may be too easily influenced by those who seek to persuade them and influence their behavior" (pp. 148-149). ... Parents Watching Alongside Children Parents must stay actively involved with their children's viewersh...

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These influences may have some negative effects on rest of our life. ... They always want to do their best to their children by saving and taking care of them. Sometimes, it is too much, and some parents behave their children as programmed robots. ... The children are influenced more by the media. ... We take a lesson from our actions and it influences our identity directly, it does not matter; it is a good or bad experience. ...

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Religious influence was positive for both adults as well as children. ... The Monks believed that by bleeding an afflicted person, the bad blood which caused the disease would be removed. ... But the fact that many who lived through this horrible operation, and those who survived the illness outright, passed their natural resilience to their children bolstered the health of their children, and grandchildren. ... Nearly all aspects of the European religious ideals have positive influences on the people who follow them. ... In confusing "being blessed" with actually having a good immune s...

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Media and Its Effects On Children Sex and violence sell and the media often use these, to an unlimited degree, to seize market share regardless of the damage that may occur to children and adolescent youth. ... For one thing, more literature is available for children and young people than ever before. ... This new realism in literature for children and adolescents has explored topics formerly reserved for adult audiences. ... Of course, within this plethora of controversial subjects are both good and bad books. ... "Their findings estimate that four to six percent of crime can be linked ...

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Our children are simply taking it to the next level. ... Obesity is greater among children and adolescents who frequently watch television, and children watch an average of three hours a day (Dietz& Gortmaker, 1985). ... The mass media also continues to promote excessively thin body images and plays a negative role in the development of bad eating habits. ... Parental influence is very important to any child, and the overweight child is no exception. ... Barbie herself sets a very bad example to young children. ...

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"The Influence of Music upon Society" Contents: Introduction .. ... They wore flowers in their hair leading to the nickname "flower children" and phrase "flower power". 1969's Woodstock was the event of two decades. ... When bands like Led Zeppelin & Jimi Hendrix emerged, even though it wasn't their intention to influence young people to use chemicals or drink tons of alcohol, eventually their excesses did that for them. ... That was the time when experimental music, Indian influences, narcotics, sexual inconstancy, alcohol abus...

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