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The Link between TV Violence and the Violence of Children

Children watch a lot of television. TV has even become a babysitter.

There is more violence portrayed on television than in earlier years. Crime has increased

steadily over the years as well. Many children have been involved in violent crimes in recent years, and

there is a link between violence on television and the increase in crime.

As early as 1960, Leonard Eron and L. Rowell Huesmann, researchers in Columbia County,

New York, discovered a connection between violence on TV and how aggressively children behaved.

Children seeing violence on TV, beginning as young as eight years old, exhibited more aggressive

behavior. As they grew older, still watching violence on TV, the aggressive behavior continued.

There seemed to be a cumulative effect in the children's behavior. Being aggressive as a child

is a good indicator as to the type of behavior that will be exhibited as an adult. Several studies followed

participants over three decades and revealed that those people, who showed the most aggressive behavior

at age eight, had continued to be aggressive and had the most arrests for violent crimes (Mortimer, 1-4).

At the Indiana University Center for Adolescent Studies, researchers asked kids what causes fights.

The kids said gossip and bullying. The survey showed that those kids who exhibited the highest bullying

behavior also watched violence on TV, fought, misbehaved at home as well as in the community, and were

disciplined forcefully by their parents. The bullies had fewer adult role models and less contact with adults.

Also, not possessing the social skills for coping with co...

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Mortimer, Jeffrey. "How TV Violence Hits Kids." Education Digest 60.2 (1994): 1-4. Online. ehostvgw1.epnet.com. 3 Oct. 2000.

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