Child Development According to TV
Children who watch violent TV shows are more violent in their actions. ... This business has produced violent video games, movies, and TV programs that are children are watching. ... "Children between the ages of 8 and 12 appear to be particularly sensitive to television violence, as are children with emotional, behavioral, learning, or impulse control problems"(2American Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1999). "But, according to the American Psychiatric Association (1998), children as young as 14 months imitate the violent behavior they seen on TV"(3Media Violence: Advice for parents). ... "Some child psychologists say that the mass media contribute to child development through symbolic modeling. ... "Nielsen Media Research (1998) data indicate that the average American child spends more than 21 hours per week viewing television"(7Impact of Media on Children and Adolescents). ... The study concluded that children Priest 4 who watched more than six hours of TV per day reported more trauma symptoms and more violent behaviors. ... "In a shocking study, boys ages 6 to 8 who were heavy viewers of very violent TV shows (including Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man, and those old Road Runner cartoons) were twice as likely as other men to push, grab, or shove their spouses and three times as likely to be convicted of criminal behavior by the time they reached their early 20s. Women were twice as likely to have thrown at their spouse and more than four times as apt to have punched, beaten, or choked by another adult"(8Violent TV makes kids violent adults). ... "Children between the ages of 4 and 10 become what they see, whether its on TV or in the street, says researcher Leonard D.