Children and TV Violence

Title: Children and TV Violence
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 821 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)

Children and TV Violence

Children and TV Violence 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 …showed first 75 words of 821 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 821 total…was proved to have been the boys’ obsession of a violent movie and computer game (Gonzalez 1). Even though video games are more graphic than television, children spend more of their time watching TV (“Media Violence” 1). Fifty-three percent of surveyed people said that violence on television, films, books, and in newspapers make people do something violent (Parents and children 7). As a result of violence on television crimes including rape, homicide, and assault happen more often (Bridges 1).

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