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Television Violence and Its Effect on Children
The children of today are surrounded by technology and entertainment
that is full of violence. It is estimated that the average child watches from
three to five hours of television a day! (Neilson 1993). Listening to music is
also a time consuming ....
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.... television with a friend or alone. (TV-Free
America). Too often parents assume that their children are responsible enough to
choose suitable programming. But the sad fact is that even some shows deemed as
“children's television” are violent. A survey in Mediascope showed that a
staggering sixty-six percent of children's programming contained violence. Many
times the violence occured in cartoons which were the least likely to show the
long term consequences of violence and in many cases portrayed the violence in a
humorous way (Mediascope 2/96). Studies done in various countri ....
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