Children, TV, And Violence

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versus "evil" is the basis of these shows with violence as the answer.
When children watch these programs they copy the actions and "morals" of these
shows depicting "good" and "evil". Children do not know what "good" is or what
"evil" is, how can they? This world is not broken into "good" and "evil".
"Evil" to children is what opposes them, what does not agree with them, or any
other person or thing that poses a possible difficulty. Children must be taught
that there are differences in this world. This world is filled with many people
holding different beliefs, ideas, and morals. That is what makes this world
so unique and colorful. Children need to learn to respect these differences from
a very young age. They need to learn to talk out and solve any disagreements or
problems through other means than violence. They must not "know" violence as an
answer, as if violence was never even an option to consider in solving a
problem.
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and child. Children are very susceptible and
easily persuaded as we all know. In the early 1960's, Albert Bandura of
Stanford was the first to present the theory that children not only learned from
their parents through imitation but also through imitating television. So when
children imitate what they see on television, especially when it is something
that is rewarded, and knowing how violent television is these days, television
can and does influence children in violent and aggressive means. When children
are raised with violent television "...they become desensitized to real people's
suffering..." (Leland 47). When children watch a man get blown up across the
screen and see the ...

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