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Saturday, October 07, 2006

Question of the Day: Day 280

Do you think that the amount of violence in the news is impacting children (under age 10) who are exposed to it? How so?

posted by Michelle at 9:28 AM


3 Comments:

Blogger David said...

Yes, I do think it can be, and probably is damaging to thim in that it desensitizes them to violence. It accelerates their decent in to callousness.

10/07/2006 9:48 AM  
Blogger b said...

What Goes In Must Come Out:
Children's Media Violence Consumption at Home and Aggressive Behaviors at School

One of the many sources of compiled data concerning violence in children related to media.

The amount of violence tolerated and propagated in the home, at school, in the community, and through the media certainly has impact on how children behave; children learn how to behave by example.

The consideration that human beings restructure the physiology of our brains to cope with our environment is nothing new - we are adaptive creatures down to the cellular level - connect the dots, and we should be intelligent enough to be very careful what we allow to get into our heads, and those of our children.

10/07/2006 10:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree that it desensitized them to violence & that sometimes, violence, crime, exploiting others - power & control - may appear to be exciting & alluring to immature & impressionable minds.

There may or may not be a correlation between such depictions and the number of CHILDREN who are diagnosed with depression, anxiety, oppostitional defiant disorder, &, OR intermittent explosive disorder.

I have noted my own children (when they were younger) behaving more aggressively after watching certain programs, or playing certain games.

10/08/2006 7:14 PM  

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