Does television violence affect children?

For years now there has been a controversy over whether or not television influences children. Many argue that parents should control what their children watch, while some argue that television in general is violent for children, and you cannot censor everything. However, television in past years has become increasingly violent, and the images that are put on the screen for children to watch affects their lives in many ways.

This argument about television violence has been around since the 1950’s. Children and adolescents spend on average per week twenty-eight hours watching television. By the time these kids reach the age eighteen they will have seen 200,000 acts of violence. (Brossette 2003)

Violence on television consists of a wide variety of forms. One top form of violence is wrestling; others include violence in sitcoms, commercials and cartoons. Many parents feel that everywhere they go children are confronted with violence. Video games, arcade games, m...