(Media Influences on children and adolescents: Violence and Sex)
Due to this there has been extensive research on the relationship between televised violence and violent behavior among youth over the past 30 years. Television violence and the presence of TV’s in American homes have increased tremendously over the years. In 1950, only 10% of American homes had a television, today that number has skyrocketed to 99%. In fact more families have televisions than telephones. Over half of all children have a TV set in there room. This gives a greater opportunity for children to view programs without parental supervision. (Frarcci, 1) As a result, an average American child spends around 28 hours in front of a television a week. In that time they could have watched around 200,000 acts of violence before he/she becomes a teenager. With televisions broad range of violence these act’s aggression can be seen anywhere, like the news. The news shows real life violence, like the bombing of the twin towers. They would also watch “reality” TV where people are seen committing wild acts of violence while the camera depicts it as it, supposedly, happens. (Frarcci,