TV Violence

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Almost every child in the world has watch television or seen a movie. Whether it is news or cartoons television is a part of today's culture. However, does television cause children to behave violently? Is it television’s responsibility to guard and clarify to children what is right and wrong? Should children be shielded and never exposed to violence? Television is not the cause of violent behavior and is not responsible for children behavior. Violence is a part of culture and for society to shield a child is to weaken the knowledge of the world’s past and present.
History shows us that television is not the cause of violence. The invention of the television has only been present in history for a little over a century (The History). Violence has been a continual phenomenon throughout the history of humankind (Alperovitz). There has yet to be a generation that escaped experiencing violence (Alperovitz). The world has over 2000 years of wars, murders and fighting before television was present. Therefore television is not the cause of violence, greed, hatred, jealously and so many other things are what causes violence.
It is not the responsibility of television to guard and clarify to children what is right and wrong. Parents must take responsibility to guard and clarify concepts of values and rules to their children. What are values? Values are a set of beliefs, ideas, and morals (Parent Connection). If a television show isn’t right for you child, TURN IT OFF. If a child does not understand violence explain to them what is bad and should be done. Television may show violence, but that does not mean a child then will become violent. To an adult violence is wrong and should be avoided, because it is common knowledge to them. Children must learn things that are common knowledge to adults, since for them it is entirely new knowledge.
“Violence echoes in the lives of individuals and in the history of societies much longer than ...