http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/tv.htm
A great deal is known about children and television, because there have been thousands of studies on the subject. Researchers have studied how TV affects kids' sleep, weight, grades, behavior, and more. It’s worth looking at what the research says when deciding how to manage television in your family.
What about TV and aggressive or violent behavior?
Literally thousands of studies since the 1950s have asked whether there is a link between exposure to media violence and violent behavior. All but 18 have answered, "Yes." The evidence from the research is overwhelming. According to the AAP, "Extensive research evidence indicates that media violence can contribute to aggressive behavior, desensitization to violence, nightmares, and fear of being harmed." [14] Watching violent shows is also linked with having less empathy toward others [14a].
An average American child will see 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on TV by age 18 [15].
Two-thirds of all programming contains violence [16].
Programs designed for children more often contain violence than adult TV [17].
Most violent acts go unpunished on TV and are often accompanied by humor. The consequences of human suffering and loss are rarely depicted.
Many shows glamorize violence. TV often promotes violent acts as a fun and effective way to get what you want, without consequences [18].
Even in G-rated, animated movies and DVDs, violence is common—often as a way for the good characters to solve their problems. Every single U.S. animated feature film produced between 1937 and 1999 contained violence, and the amount of violence with intent to injure has increased over the years [19].
Even "good guys" beating up "bad guys" gives a message that violence is normal and okay. Many children will try to be like their "good guy" heroes in their play.
Children imitate the violence they see on TV. Children under age eight cannot tell the difference between reality and fantasy, making them more vulnerable to learning from and adopting as reality the violence they see on TV [20].
Repeated exposure to TV violence makes children less sensitive toward its effects on victims and the human suffering it causes.
A University of Michigan researcher demonstrated that watching violent media can affect willingness to help others in need [20a]. Read about the study here: Comfortably Numb: Desensitizing Effects of Violent Media on Helping Others.
Viewing TV violence reduces inhibitions and leads to more aggressive behavior.
Watching television violence can have long-term effects:
A 15-year-long study by University of Michigan researchers found that the link between childhood TV-violence viewing and aggressive and violent behavior persists into adulthood [21].
A 17-year-long study found that teenaged boys who grew up watching more TV each day are more likely to commit acts of violence than those who watched less [22].
Even having the TV on in the home is linked to more aggressive behavior in 3-year-olds. This was regardless of the type of programming and regardless of whether the child was actually watching the TV [23].
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i have been reading up on and studying this for a decade. having kids, i felt it was important to do the research with child development from day one of conception. none of this is new. none of it is way out there. it is not even arguable. i could tell you about personal experience, and experiments seeing the effect and i am sure you will dismiss it.
ed ed and eddy, power girls, johnny bravo, sponge bob has an effect on the kids and though you call this "art" some see it as garbage that conditions and teaches and effects children development. and the role of the parent is to provide an environment of healthy growth. that would be the consideration. BUT...
what is really offensive and why i have stayed off du mostly over the last days, is the ugliness of your post. a reasonable discussion is not to be had. what is the garbage you try to give me here? because i do not tow the line of all "art" we are being fed as being healthy for us, you assign a lot of nasty roles to me.
suggesting i teach my kids to be homophobic and racist because i took the time to learn child development and took the time to implement healthy choices in my family is so far out there. the fact that i consider my kids development would suggest the opposite. but, that is not where you went in your argument. i really have little desire to discuss this, or much on du the last handful of days. but your post is so offensive, that i have to come back to reply. so i will state again.
i have two gay brother in laws we love with all our hearts. their being gay really has nothing to do with who they are as people, and why we love them. if hubby and i were to die, we willed our kids to his brother who would raise our children. we have a choice of lots of people to give our kids to. this man is by far the best choice for our children and their health, in case of a tragedy. to suggest that i would teach my kids to be bigots, to family members we love is truly so beyond offensive. your whole post is.
i wont be coming back to reply.
i will pretty much stay off du, while this type of reaction is what we see, in our interaction with each other.
and i will see the better of who we are, during this holiday season, without the ugliness.
Selective vision you have.
i am sure you see i have selective vision, when you fabricate falsehoods to project on me.
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, fucking Al Gore
