Tv And Child Behavor

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it’s not all that easy. They have been researching television violence and how it affects our children’s behavior for many years and know that the more violence a child watches the more violent that child reacts. The recent increment of crimes committed by younger children has put a lot of pressure on scientist to find answers for our nations future. It also has put pressure on government to pass new laws to protect our children from the violence. Many of the research conducted, points at television violence as the primary influence in our children’s aggressive behavior. Even though results from many of the studies point to the violence content which is present in today’s television programming, television networks have denounced any allegations against them. Even though we also have to consider that other factors such as the child’s environment contribute to its behavior we must not throw away the researchers’ findings. They must be carefully studied and examine for any validity. In this paper I’m going to go back to some of these studies conducted, research their findings, and try to and explain how the results on television violence relate to our children’s latest violent behavior. Society is in an uproar due to these events and government is fearlessly looking for answers. Among these, the killing of a New York principal while looking for a missing student was one of the most publicized in the country. "The killing happened around 9:40 a.m. when Mr. Patrick Daly, Principal of Public School PS51 was making his way through cold and rain to an apartment building complex in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. This is one of the most notorious crime-ridden neighborhoods of New York City. Mr. Daly was simply looking for one of his students who earlier that morning had left the school upset because of a fight with a classmate. "Mr. Daily was walking on a rain-slickened mall of barren concrete, when the gunfire crackled shortl...