Violence_Among_Children

Violence Among Children Violence among children, especially teenagers, has become a disturbing trend these days. It seems there is a school shooting on the news every other week. Parents have blamed the violence on television’s glorification of bloodshed and sex, the lyrics from some rap artist or rock group and games that promote violence. They have blamed everyone and everything other than themselves. Teenage violence has reached unimaginable heights, not because of the media but because of the lack of parental intervention at home. Crimes committed in the past do not seem as widespread compared to crimes in the present. Every year it seems violence in children is more prevalent. Each year in the United States, at least 1000 individuals below the magic “adult” age of 18 years are jailed for acts of homicide. In most years, since the 1980’s, there have been significantly more, 1500 young killers and up. By 1999, it seemed impossible to finish out a school year without three or four reported massacres on scattered campuses, and murders in the home…were numbingly routine (Newton 1). For example, on April 21, 1999, two high school students committed an incomprehensible crime. Eric Harris children, violence, parents, crimes, school, music, time, responsibility, games, york, television, problem, new, need, high, committed, among, years, year, whether, three, spent, something, solution, problems, over, newton, media, kids, crime, books, blame, behavior, begins, been