television
Violence on the Television Imagine walking into a relative’s house and their child comes charging at you claiming to be the yellow Power Ranger. ... It is this exposure to television violence that is having a negative influence on our children. ... households have at least one television, and four hours per day is spent watching TV. I am sure many people have or know someone who has more than one television set in their home. Many of us have a television in our living room and one in the bedroom also. As a child, the television in the living room was for my brothers and me to watch. ... Ninety-one percent of children over the age of seven spend their television time without their parents. ... Frank Lloyd Wright once said that “television was chewing gum for the eyes. ... They imitate what they are seeing on television and learn to identify with certain characters and victims. Violence on television often times does not show the end results, and the victimizers usually go unpunished.