Media Violence

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Media Violence

Introduction

At first , we must define the "negative effects " of children 's behavior "In 1991 , children under the age of ten committed more than 1000 acts of aggravated assault and 81 cases of forcible rape . Juveniles 12 and under committed .murder , robbery , larceny-theft , and forcible rape (http /www .cwrl .utexas .edu tonya /Film /film_violence .html

Ever since the media begging to play a role in the children 's lives , it has been the subject of debates about their positive

and negative effects . In the today 's world , the media violence poses an intimidation to the public health also it leads to an increase in the real world violence and assault . The media violence is a vast term which includes television , video games , the internet , and so on . According to the psychological research , the violence aired on televisions adversely affects the children 's health , on both ways physically and mentally (Valkenburg , 2004

The three major effects of seeing violence on media are

1 .Children may become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others .2 .Children may be more fearful of the world around them .3 .Children may be more likely to behave in aggressive ways toward others ( HYPERLINK "http /www .abelard .org /tv /tv .htm http /www .abelard .org /tv /tv .htm

A study revealed the facts that the average American child will have eyed 100 ,000 episodes of television violence , plus 8000 scenes of murder by the time he or she finishes the 6th grade or about thirteen years old . Another study conducted by Barlow and Hill , in 1985 disclosed the facts that approximated a standard of one violent scene occurs in every sixteen minute on the British T .V . Many institutions have reported the fact that the children 's bad behavior have increased in the classrooms and playgrounds during the past ten years or so (Hough and Erwin , 1997

An enormous range of violence programs are available for children which encourage them to commit the act of violence and to do something harmful like the same as they have watched on the T .V . In Elizabeth Newson 's terms , media violence represents a form of electronic 'child abuse which we must have the courage to regulate and resist (Barker and Petley , 2001

Children 's who watch media violence have a greater possibility of display violence and belligerent behavior later in the life as compared to the children 's who have not seen violence on any sort of a media whether it is T .V , video game , cinema , etc . Besides this , violence is a most important cause of deaths among children 's - they commit suicides homicide and so forth

Moreover , in the US family , physicians warn parents about the effects of media violence on children '1 . Children will become anti-social and aggressive behavior . 2 Children may become less sensitive to violence and those who suffer from violence . 3 Children will desire to see more violence in entertainment...