TV_Violence

TV Violence The are many impacts on children that influence them when they are young all the way until they reach there teen stage. The topic I want to talk about is the impact of television violence. I have a little four-year-old sister so this topic really captured attention to me. There really wont be an exact answer but I want to discuss many studies and cause and effect behavior situations that I researched about this topic, that leads me to believe that television does promote violence. First, the extent of viewing has a lot to do with the violence. Children begin watching television at a very early age, sometimes as early as six months, and are ardent viewers by the time that they are two or three years old. The general pattern of viewing is one of a steady rise in the number of hours viewed from early childhood through preadolescence and then a sharp drop in viewing during the adolescent years. According to audience rating surveys (Nielsen, 1988), the typical American household has the television set on for more than seven hours each day and children age 2 to 11 spend an average of 28 hours per week viewing (Andreasen, violence, television, children, aggressive, behavior, studies, early, violent, effect, viewing, one, between, viewed, topic, research, aggression, about, years, televised, study, scenes, programs, per, levels, laboratory, hours, young, watching, viewers, very, typical, tv, through, screen, ross