Media Violence and its effect on Children.

It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence shows its ugly head. We see it in the streets, dark back alleys, schools, and even at home. Home is a major source of violence. In many peoples' living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violent scenes with sometimes devastating results. "Unless and until …

…and this makes parent's and guardian's jobs to protect the children, very difficult. Parents should not have to repeatedly worry about what the media is turning their children into, and society shouldn't constantly be suffering because of media-imposed morals and values that are not really in the best interest of society. We might as well go back to the question posed by Socrates, saying whether the individual is born corrupt or is corrupted by society.