Television Violence And Its Effect On Children

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is that children spend an average of 28 hours a week in front of the
television (Neilson 1993). This is almost two times the amount of time that
some children are in school. At this very impressionable age it is no wonder
that the images that kids see sometimes has a profound impact on their behavior.
Fifty-five percent of children watch television with a friend or alone. (TV-Free
America). Too often parents assume that their children are responsible enough to
choose suitable programming. But the sad fact is that even some shows deemed as
“children's television” are violent. A survey in Mediascope showed that a
staggering sixty-six percent of children's programming contained violence. Many
times the violence occured in cartoons which were the least likely to show the
long term consequences of violence and in many cases portrayed the violence in a
humorous way (Mediascope 2/96). Studies done in various countries across the
world show the homicide rates doubling 10 to 15 ...

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