Television with educational program can learn a child a song, to count, some new words and all sorts of things. ... Also, kids who watch violent programs are slower to intervene or to call for help when they saw younger children fighting or playing destructively than kids who watched nonviolent TV program. Child can be traumatize if they see a too much violent scene that seams real. ... Also, resist the temptation to put a television in your child's room. ... Like this, you'll know what your child is listening to and you'll have more control. ...

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They have been researching television violence and how it affects our children's behavior for many years and know that the more violence a child watches the more violent that child reacts. ... Even though we also have to consider that other factors such as the child's environment contribute to its behavior we must not throw away the researchers' findings. ... So programs like today's "Power Rangers", "Beavis and Butthead" are teaching our children to fight and be aggressive, because in the case of the Power Rangers the only option is to fight the so called bad guys. ...

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Television shows have a significant impact on child development as well. ... According to the University of Michigan's health website, (http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/mediavio.htm) an average American child will see 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on TV by age 18. ... Instead of games of the past like Super Mario and Need for Speed, there are games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty. ...

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A team from the University of Michigan did find in studies that every TV show a child sees increases slightly the likelihood of a child to become more aggressive. ... The popular violent military focused game, Call of Duty, is credited to be one of the most brutal games out there. ... Call of Duty and a large portion of the violent video games are losing sales which show they are not as popular as they once were (Guarino 2). Though I do agree that Call of Duty is a violent video game, I disagree that it should be avoided because it is informative and has benefits. ...

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The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is called modeling. ... A preschool child is working on a drawling, and an adult in another part of the room is working with some tinkertoys. ... After observing the adult's outburst, the child is taken to another room where there are many appearing toys. The child is then taken away for the toys and put in a room filled with fewer toys, including the Babo doll. What does this child then do. ...

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There are many influences or events that can set a child onto a course that leads to violent behavior. ... We call children's bad behavior "acting out," which really means they are communicating behaviorally rather than verbally. ... The problem could be their parents are so busy with their wealth that they never have time to communicate with their child. ... A child of a wealthy family may seem to have everything, but may lack the same parental direction from a child in poverty. ... Can a laboratory research project compare to actual life learning of living as a child? ...

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The first of these articles is called "Domestic Violence: the Role of the Heath Care Professional". ... The third article called "Domestic Violence and Child protection: Directions for Good Practice". ... The article also talks about the after effects of the child(ren) in question leaving with the victimized parent and how that effects the child. The child is typically out of touch with the abusive parent for the duration of their life, however in some circumstances the child will have visitation with the parent which will cause post-separation violence to be directed at the child instead of t...

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Smacking children is currently illegal in the U.K with the exception of parents and child minders. ... On the other hand the majority of people believe the smacking is right and shows a child where their boundaries lie. ... A children's organisation called Epoch argues that smacking children encourages the use of violence in society. ... They think that explaining to the child why they were wrong would work a lot better. ... To conclude, I think that smacking is a good method of teaching a child because it is hard for a child to understand that they were wrong if they are shouted at...

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Then she realized that she should call the police; so she did. ... Of child murderers specifically boys ages 11-20, 63% killed the men who were abusing their mothers (Bruhn 49). ... There are several ways a child is affected by their parent's fighting. ... There are many ways a child can help to stop their tragedies too. ... If a fight gets serious at home a child need to call the police for support. ...

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Games like call of duty and grand theft auto are definitely for mature audiences and shouldn't be in the hands of minors to play. ... Eventually the more a child is exposed to these games they begin to believe this violent behavior is acceptable in humanity and that no consequences against those actions will be considered. ... The reason why it's even apparent that children in struggling economic communities play games like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Call of Duty is because they feel like they can relate to it because of the afflicted areas they reside in and all the dangerous activity...

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Conduct In Military Housing Government housing or as some call it, on-base housing, serves as a benefit to our military families. ... A few weeks later the owner recovered the bicycles after spotting a child riding the bike through the same neighborhood from which it was stolen. Military Police were called and visited the home of the alleged thief and found multiple bicycles and parts in the garage. The child's mother denied any knowledge of the bicycles being stolen; the child was only 13 years old. ... Maybe your child is spending time over at a friend's home when the par...

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Most parents allow their children to watch so called "kid's shows" without even thinking about what might be contained within them. Most people would say "how can a cartoon affect a child?" ... While watching a show such as "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" a child sees almost 30 minutes of non-stop fighting. ... After watching the show, a child may become bored because the reality of the television show is more interesting. The child then imitates what was seen on television. ...

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Today police seem to be getting more calls pertaining to domestic violence especially against woman. ... An example would be a child (boy) grows up to see his father hitting his mother, this child becomes an adult, gets married has children he also hits his wife he learned this act by observing this father. Now if his child observed the same domestic abuse the trait can go on from generation to generation. ... A child or even in today's society an adult can imitate what they see on television. ... In the conclusion of this theory it does suggest that and adults violence can come from wha...

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This lead to the investigations of the so-called "Nintendo generation", a generation so focused around computer games and television that reality is no longer easy to distinguish from fantasy and abnormality. ... The effects can be, firstly, desensitation, where the child no longer cares about people or animals being hurt. ... The first point is extremely relevant: "desensitation, there the child no longer cares about people or animals getting hurt," for example it's like someone moving to New York's alleyways and joining a gang. ... For a child's eager eyes the words "cut" and ...

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There are several different types of domestic violence, a man beating a women, a man beating his child, a woman beating her significant other, a woman beating her child, or a child abusing his/her parents verbally or physically. ... There are an extremely low amount of cases where a child beats there father, this might be because the majority of children who abuse their mother, also live in a house where their father left them. ... The number of abused children is rising, mainly because mothers are afraid to call the police on her husband. ... When feeling threatened or worried about your f...

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It's a game, called Grand Theft Auto: Vice City made by Rockstar Games. ... It's not television, or movies, not even rock music, the new problem child, is video games. ... However, in many of these cases, the child already suffered from abnormally aggressive behavior. ... If they give their child the money and say go buy whatever you like, that is not doing their part to protect their child from what they consider violent games. ... Parents should make use of the game rating system, and take interest in what their child is doing. ...

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This type of aggression is called instrumental aggression. ... Television programs today contain a large amount of violence and sex and with the average child watching two to four hours of television a day (Huston & Wright, 1996), the child will experience copious amounts of murders and sex scenes. ... Aggression is demonstrated early in life and so it escalates as the individuals life goes on, thus if a child is highly aggressive, this child will grow into an even more aggressive person later on in life affecting his/her relationships with other people. If children are exposed to violence thr...

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These two countries alone have lost thousands of lives, many of them including child soldiers. ... For example, if we take a look at World War I, the only reason why it ended was because many of the countries that fought were exhausted and begged their leaders to call for a ceasefire. ... Soon after a group of rebels formed a group called the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD). ... Unfortunately, we cannot say the same for child soldiers. ... In an interview, an organization called War Resistor's International spoke to former child soldiers about their experiences. ...

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For example, in the book Infant and Child, by Judith Rich Harris and Robert M. ... This clearly shows that from the moment a child is born, he or she is already learning from observing. Therefore, as the child grows up and starts watching television, the child can not distinguish between what is reality and what is fantasy. ... It felt fun to imitate these so called heroes because it seemed like the characters in the movies were invincible. ... Furthermore, in a resent incident in Norway, two children beat another child by jumping and kicking the child in the head and other parts of her bod...

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(Bok 464) A rebuttal to this is that it needs to be revealed to the child that the game they are playing is just an unreal world that they can control. ... He states that parents should know what games their children are playing and even play it with them and let the child explain the game. If there is a problem with the game, parents should discuss what they like and don't like with their child. ... Accordingly, I have played video games ever since I was a child, back when violence associated with video games was not as big a deal as it is now. ... It would not be an issue to debate ...

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For example, in the book Infant and Child, by Judith Rich Harris and Robert M. ... This clearly shows that from the moment a child is born, he or she is already learning from observing. Therefore, as the child grows up and starts watching television, the child can not distinguish between what is reality and what is fantasy. ... It felt fun to imitate these so called heroes because it seemed like the characters in the movies were invincible. ... Furthermore, in a resent incident in Norway, two children beat another child by jumping and kicking the child in the head and other parts of her bod...

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Now I would like to call upon your attentions to ideally understand what war can do to children around the world. ... A child who was disabled during war may lose a limb, sight, and cognitive capacity and lose the opportunity of schooling and of a social life. ... Landmine is more likely to kill or seriously injure a child than an adult. ... There is also interruption of population immunization programs by war, which may be responsible for increases in child mortality. ... According to Water.org "every 21 seconds, a child dies from water-related illness" (Making the different 1990-20...

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It was pointed out that the child has been playing Grand Theft Auto IV. before committing the crime. ... This study suggests that the frequent demand of video games and their constant use can cause a change in child's behaviour over long term for eternity. ... Another quite similar experiment, which aims to question the relationship between videogames and violence is an experiment called 'Taylor Competitive Reaction Time Task'. ... In addition, the average age of a game purchaser is 35 years old, which suggests that it must be the child's parent who allow the child to play...

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The problem of violence against women is at once simple and quite complex. It is simple because it is so obvious, such violence is everywhere. Women are beaten, abused, raped, and tortured on the streets, in the boardroom, and in the bedroom (222). Domestic violence is the chief health risk faced by...

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To drive the devil out from their child, they spank them. ... In this way, children are inflicted pain in response to child's undesirable behavior and or speaking of inappropriate language. ... The mother who hits her child with a belt may be admired as a good parent in one neighborhood; while in another, the mother who slaps her child's face may menace being accounted as an obnoxious parent. ... It also compels Canada to supply for programs of support, prevention, and treatment in cases of hostility and child abuse. With regards to school discipline, article 28 calls on Canada to ma...

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