Dont Young Children Sponge It from Television? If a stranger gives a candy and junk food to a child, the kid enjoys eating such foods even though they produce the harmful effects of rotting away at his teeth. With a parent to limitchilds intake of such harmful sweets, however, the child is protected from their damage.Similarly, the American public enjoys viewing violent and abusive programs at the risk of adaptingaggressive and unacceptable behaviors. Because the networks refuse to act as a mother and tolimit the amount of violence shown on television, there are no restrictions to prevent televisionsviolent candy from rotting away at the teeth of society. The increasing amount of violence ontelevision, moreover, effects many young male and female viewers in a very unhealthy and hurtfulway causing children to have problems with their moral balance, their behavior, and their views onreal life.It often seems that everywhere a person looks, violence rears its ugly head: in the streets,at schools, on the back alleys, and even at homes. Over the past decade, in the living rooms ofalmost every American family there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is thetelevision that portrays killing of single individuals and groups of people, sexual abuse, violenceagainst women, and many other horrible forms of violence. Sadly, children and teenagers whowatch the television are often pulled unto realistic world of violence scenes with sometimesdevastating results. For instance, many times we can hear on the news a 16-year-old boy breaksinto a cellar and wears gloves because he does not want to leave his fingerprints and discovershow to do so on television. Likewise, instead of just seeing a police officer handing a ticket to aspeeding violator on the road, he can beat the offender bloody on television. Children (and evensome adults), however, do not always realize this is not the way difficult situations are handled inreal life. S...
