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TV violence & children

            
             Violence on television is harmful and damaging to children's minds. Most children watch 21-23 of television per week, and 3 to 5 violent acts per hour ("Media Violence (RE9526)" 1). The age in which television violence starts to affect children is when they are 3 years old (Smith 2). Just as soon as they reach their mid-teens they will have seen over thousands of violent incidents and deaths in cartoons and with real people (Gonzalez 1). The most harmful violence on television was seen in cartoons (Shifrin 2). Reading practice by children is being replaced by television watching. The visual effects on television cause the child to not comprehend with in-depth reading (Healy 1-2). .
             Violence on television affects children who watch it. Children will tend to be not sympathetic to people, scared of the world around them, and will be more aggressive compared to children who don't watch violence on television ("Educational Television" 2). The APA (American Psychological Association) informed broadcasters and the public of the dangers for children of television violence. Studies show that kids that watched many hours of TV violence as a child will show more aggression when they are teenagers. Along with getting arrested and prosecuted for criminal acts when they become adults ("Violence on Television" 2). Children mock what they view on television and carry behaviors to their adulthood (Bridges 1). " Entertainment television is too violent that this is harmful to society that we as a society have become desensitized to violence" (Smith 1).
             Children that watch TV violence will have problems with learning in school, they will be slower in learning ("How TV Affects Your Child" 1). Children that have lower intelligence in school watch more violent television or believe violent television copies real life (Smith 3). It also .
             deprives the brain of many experiences and will impact mental and emotional growth.


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1. Tv violence and children

For example, in the article, A Kick in the Head, "James Walsh tells about a Swedish satellite TV network that stopped the children's TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers after a five-year-old girl was beaten senseless by three small boys and froze to death (1)." ... Children are the victims of T.V. violence and so I believe that the television industries should be responsible for regulating the amount of television violence that they subject millions of children to everyday. ... For example, according to Ronald Slaby in "Closing the Gap on TV's "Entertainment" Violence," "The res...

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2. The Enemy Of Children: Television Violence

The Enemy of Children: Television Violence "With a television in ninety-six percent of Americans" homes, TV obviously has a major effect on the attitudes, education and behavior of our children." ... As a result of observing this high amount of TV violence, children are now becoming desensitized to violence in real life situations. ... "Violence on TV does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs". ... Even after the many studies that prove television violence does in fact affect children, television executives responsible for the TV violence claim, televi...

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3. Children in Front of TV Violence

A substantial amount of research has been undertaken on the subject of TV violence and its effects on the youth. ... Why does the problem exist with children and TV violence? The problem exists because of the different ways that children react to what they watch on TV. ... This fact has several implications for children in relation to TV. ... Therefore, it is necessary for parents to protect their children form the consequences of TV violence by taking under consideration a number of solutions. ...

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4. Children and TV Violence

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5. The Effects of TV Violence on Children

It also has put pressure on government to pass new laws to protect our children from the violence. ... Meaning that aggressive adults learned their behavior as children and the more violence children watch the better the chances are for them to be violent when they are adults. ... But other psychologists began to doubt this notion when their research with children revealed that children perceive much action on the TV screen as real. ... It concluded that these males watched an average of six hours of TV per day, about twice as much as children in the general population at that time. ... The st...

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6. Children and TV Violence

Does violence on television cause children to be violent? ... Some people contend that it's not what children watch on TV but how easily obtainable guns are. ... Numerous studies have been done to show the correlation of violence in TV and children's propensity to be violent from watching it. ... Violence on TV is only a small part of what children watch. ... TV can help shape a young person's life. ...

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7. Tv Violence On Young Children

Studies of the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers have found that children may become insensitive to violence. ... It appears children spend more time watching TV than any other activity. ... Children with emotional, behavioral, or learning problems may be more easily influenced by TV violence (Bandura, 1977). The impact of TV violence may be immediately evident in the child's behavior or may surface later, and young people can even be affected when the family atmosphere shows no tendency toward violence (Cantor & Wilson, 1984). Therefore, while TV violence is not the only c...

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8. Violence on TV

I feel that violence on TV should be reduced and played mostly at night. ... According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, there are over 200 studies on the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers. These studies have all shown that children may become "immune" to the horror of violence, gradually except violence as a way to solve problems, imitate the violence they observe on TV, and identify with certain character, victims, or victimizers. The AACAP also adds that the "extensive viewing of TV violence by children causes greater aggressiveness," and that chi...

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9. TV's violence impact on child

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