Television and Children

Does violence on television cause children to be violent? Does violence on television cause children to be violent? There are many people that say this is true but there are also many people who believe to be false. We live in an era where both parents are often working and children have more unsupervised time so it is easy for them to watch different kinds of shows without parental consent. Some people contend that it's not what children watch on TV but how easily obtainable guns are. The people who say violence on television does cause children to be violent site psychological research. They say four major effects of seeing violence on television are: becoming "immune" to the horror of violence; gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems; imitate the violence they observe on television; and identify with certain characters, victims or victimizers.
The average American child will have watched 100,000 acts of televised violence, including 8,000 depictions of murder, by th...