Television 2

Children and Television Children and adolescence’s spend almost 22-28 hours per week watching television. This is a sad fact because this is the largest amount of hours spent on any activity in a child’s life, aside from sleeping. Television has a large influence on children’s attitudes, ideas, and behaviors. Teens witness ten thousand murders, rapes and aggravated assaults per year on TV, and four out of five Americans believe that violence on …

…doing the right thing by their parents instead of watching the violence shown on TV because it shows how it is okay to use force to solve their problems. TV also gives the impression to children that education is not needed in order to succeed in life, and that stereotypes are also shown that there is no harm in teasing others that are different from them and different from what is the accepted by society.