... is a music video, cartoon or a televised sport, a large amount of the programming is violent in a way. Statistics show that children and adolescents in America spend, on average, 28 hours per week watching television. Unfortunately, much of televisions programming is violent. What's even more staggering is that it has been estimated by the American Academy of Pediatrics that by age 18, the ... be more fearful of the world around them. Children may be more likely to behave in aggressive ways toward others The problem is that the more and more children become immune to this sort of behavi...

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... they watch four or more hours each weeknight (p. 2). This is so very true. Even the American Psychiatric Association indicates that the average American child watches 28 hours of television each week and will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the age of 18. However, I don't think it is the only reason. The life they ... Lives of Children, it states that the types of violence experienced by males and females are often very different, as are their relative levels of risk, though neither gender is immune from any particular form of violence (Brown, & Bzoste...

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