Is Media Violence Damaging To Kids Summary

Did you know something going on in your house right now can affect your child’s entire life? Several longitudinal studies over the effects of T.V. and media violence explain the risks taken when you expose young children to violence in media and T.V. Early exposure to T.V. and media violence can make longitudinal changes in a child’s whole life by altering the way they think, changing how they act socially, causing adulthood aggression, and chemically changing your brain. How does T.V. and media violence affect a child’s brain? In Sasha Emmons article “Is Media Violence Damaging to Kids?” a section called the “Star Wars” problem, it mentions black and white think being very bad. Dr. Gail Gross explains how children learn from watching other people, even people on T.V. If you add the fact that children watching the violence have still developing brains, Dr. Gail Gross says it's easy to see the dangers of T.v. violence. In “Is Media Violence …show more content…
“...some recent studies indicate that watching violence on television can even impact adults” (Dr. Gross 1). According to Dr. Gail Gross there are “... potential dangers to violent T.V. viewing and one of the most disturbing is that young children become more violent themselves as teenagers, and tend to have more encounters with the law as adults” (2). A different study had shown how men and women, adults would carry out violence. “While media violence exposure may have short-term effects on adults, its negative impact on children is enduring” (Huesmann, Moise-Titus, Podolski, Eron 1). Violence in media affects you differently depending on your age.
“The longitudinal relationships observed in this study held true” (Huesmann, Moise-Titus, Podolski, Eron 1). It’s easy to see now, T.V. violence exposed to children effects adulthood. Early exposure to T.V. and media violence doesn’t just affect adulthood, it can chemically change your