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Essay / How Media Violence Affects Children - 1615
How Media Violence Affects ChildrenHave you ever looked at someone and thought: I wonder what made them the way they are today 'today? When you do this, you often have to go back to a person's childhood. How have certain events affected them? Over time, violence became dramatically evident in children's lives. Parents don't seem to pay attention to their children's television viewing habits. They start letting them watch everything that's on TV. For example: Family Guy, all those shows on Adult Swim. These violent television programs could cause many problems for children and parents later in life. Parents should carefully monitor their children's listening habits so that they are less exposed to violence, increase their physical activity, and decrease aggressive behavior. To begin with, parents should carefully monitor their children's viewing habits, as the body of empirical research linking children's exposure to media violence with subsequent increases in their aggressive and violent behavior was already greater than the average in the 1970s (Bushman and Huesmann 6). Infrequent exposure is unlikely to have lasting consequences, but parents should be encouraged to protect their children from the types of repeated exposures that intensive play with violent video games or immersion in violent television programs. An example of what can happen is Isabelle Martin. She grew up in a tough neighborhood and only had her mother to raise her. She grew up amid countless acts of violence in her neighborhood. She never had a steady job and was always hanging out with the wrong group of people. She started using drugs and her life became a downward spiral. Parents must therefore take into account the neighborhood around them. Children are easily i...... middle of paper ......rom? How can it be managed?." Nscu.edu. North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, May 30, 2000. Web. January 10, 2013. . (DeBord) Nagle, J. (2009) Violence in Movies, Music and the media. Rosen: The Rosen PublishingGroup Inc, 63. “Policy Statement—Media Violence,” Pediatrics (Nov. 2009): Vol. /entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19841118Gardner, Dan (2007) “Scary Stories Don't Tell the Real Story of Gun Violence”: 1. Web..Hogan MJ. ) Jun Adolescents and media violence: six critical issues for practitioners Adolesc Med Clin.16(2):249-68, vii.:16111617.