A do you think question for those here in R & S...?

Question

Do you think that Child Programming on Television today is a contributing factor for the growing violence of our young people?

Answer 1

I blame Sesame Street. It all went downhill after Mr. Hooper died. (RIP)

Answer 2

The woman that said video games should be dragged out into the street and shot.


Irony aside, is there really an increase in violence? I remember the civil rights movement and people being killed because they were black. There were school shootings going on in the 1950s. I wouldn't say that child programming on television is a contributing factor to growing violence. I'd say the emphasis of our news media has turned to violence which makes it seem like there is more violence.

Me and just about everybody I know were raised in an environment with video games and movies like Predator and Terminator 2. Can it trigger something in someone that has violent tendencies? Absolutely. Does it cause violence? No.

Answer 3

I think parent's not monitoring what their children are watching on television, is the contributing factor for the growing violence of our young people today.

Answer 4

Give me several independently verifiable statistics that prove that violence is growing amongst young people.

I tend to think that the level of violence has not changed. It is simply being reported more. The only thing that has changed is the weapon of choice. It used to be fists and knives. Now, it is guns.

As for the influence of television, maybe, but only if the parents haven't taught their kids better. Like my mom said just this past Saturday, "we taught you kids better, so you didn't act that way."

My dad is a recently retired police officer, and to get us used to guns, my parents took us out to the range at VERY young ages (I don't even remember it) and, with their supervision, we pulled the triggers at practice targets. Once they showed us what guns were all about, we never showed any interest in them.

Answer 5

I don't know much about Children's programs except those on PBS which are fine. Video games and lack of parental discipline and school discipline are the answer. Kids are not taught how to act and behave these days. They talk back, etc. That would NEVER happen when I was a child. Poor parenting is the problem and violent games... and rap music. And the other things that kids see on TV, because their PARENTS are wimps and do not lay down the laws in the house.

Answer 6

No, they government trying to be the parent and parents trying to get the best>>>for there kids. which means working more and spending less time with there child. MTV cribs society. I need the best shoes, clothes and electronics. but not a parent that will listen to me for 20 minutes out of a day. most parents know more about pop culture then they do there kids teachers in school. sad

also The Grit is right, there is a zero tolerance for everything know. I was a good kid but I did some things that if you were caught today doing you would be the scurge of society

Answer 7

No. I think it is the lack of parental supervision and education that is a contributing factor fo the growing violence of our young people.

Answer 8

?? Some programming may have an adverse reaction on our young people. But Child Programming??? Can you name the specific program?? Because I fail to see how Sesame Street or The Little Einstien's could hurt todays youth.

Answer 9

There definately needs to be guidance. If an adult just plunks the kid in front of the TV and says, "go for it" don't be surprised if violence results. If the parent sits with the child and explains any controversial stuff, this is beneficial for the child. The kid is going to face all sorts of stuff in the future, anything you can give them guidance on now will be an asset.

Answer 10

Perhaps. It affects the kind of violence, more than the need to be violent, having said that:

I think that putting children in front of a box with moving pictures, instead of loving them, reading to them, singing with them, tickling them, having them help with chores, going to museums and volley ball and Little League may lead to emotional and physical violence.

The lack of attention to children certainly leads to unhappiness, conflicts, and rage which may become violent.

The content? I don't think that seeing violence leads to violence. For a well-adjusted person, it has the opposite effect. It's repulsive.

I think the violence we see in children today comes from two places:
1. Lack of love and attention at home and in school (and certainly, substituting parenting with a TV is part of that--no matter what's on the TV).
2. Psychotropic drugs, especially SSRI's like Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Prozac, Lexapro--all the school shootings were done by children on one or more of these drugs. These drugs are already banned for teenagers and some for adults in several industrial nations.

It is our Profit at ALL Costs--including marketing fanfare on TV for children--that takes no responsibility for what they are doing to the children of this nation and of the world.

TV, Big PhaRma, Candy--all the same, in that they contribute to neglect and abuse of children, and the combination is eventually deadly to the children, themselves, or to others on whom the children turn their desperation. (Violence, in children, is also a cry for help....)

Answer 11

Yes! So is the video games, where they are killing, and scoring, that's how this kid in Canada, he was hooked on to the game, and wanted to try that out in real, how it feels to kill? So he went to his college and started shooting.
I hope you remember, which incident I am talking about.
Also because parents don't have time, they are so busy working and making money, that they buy their kids, any and everything, to keep them out of their hair, give them all material things, to keep there mouth shut and to keep them from complaining, I personally would call it a BRIBE, why kids do drugs? where are the parents? how come they don't know what their kids are doing? simply because they don't have time and they don't care.
I'm sorry! I guess this subject is not for me, because it really pisses me off, and I can go on and on.