For example, parents who do commit violence and criminal behavior around their children and teens, their children and teens are mostly like to commit violence and criminal behavior. Therefore, children are not negatively influenced by the media in any specific way. Another example would be that television causes violence that bear little relation to real behavior. In other countries like Russia and Ukraine, based on experiences, some children and teenagers hardly ever watch television because their parents sees television and the media as graphically brutal and violent. Therefore, they do not allow their children to watch television because they feel as though television has a negative impact on their children’s lives. Instead, they give their children and teenagers’ books to read to visualize things, but to allow knowledge and their imagination to help them become more academically advanced. Therefore, television cannot be the sole cause of violent …show more content…
This is important because we all have personally observed children’s behavior and see how they have reacted to certain situations. For example, video games like “Call of Duty” and “Grand Theft Auto” that parents buy their children for Christmas or their birthday contains criminal violence and sexual activity. These are the types of video games that parents allow their children to play and do not think they have an impact on their children’s behavior or actions. This is important because children and teens mimic those types of behaviors and actions, and do not think that they are doing something wrong until they get in trouble with the law. There are two places that criminal violence can get a person somewhere in life, and they are either death or