Since the 1950s, more than a 1000 studies have been done on the effects of violence in television and movies. The majority of these studies conclude that children who watch significant amounts of television and movies are more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior both immediately and in their adult year these studies have also pointed to a relationship between media violence and real life crime. 46% of all television violence identified by the study took place in children's cartons. ... Leonard Eron, PhD at the university of Illinoi, has conducted a close study of television viewing from...

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Studies that exist rely on the counting of sex acts. ... However, television is omnipresent, and both newscasts and TV dramas now confront a child with political corruption, dysfunctional families, and ambiguous role models that challenge the moral affiliation between parents and their children. ... Programs reflected this new sad reality as a new generation of action-packed adventure shows either from primetime dramas to daytime cartoons, in which the "good guys" were virtually in...

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