Hundreds of studies point out overwhelming evidence of how children and teenagers become immune to the horror of violence coming from the media today. ... The results of a survey showed teenagers listened to music an average of 40 hours per week. ... Dr Paramji Joshi, a child psychiatrist and director of Children's Center for the Prevention of Violence wrote, "Children who are raised surrounded by violence develop an emotional immunity to it and often grow up themselves to be perpetrators of the same violence." ...

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S. prisons, for instance, have shown that assigning new inmates to care for llamas lowers the incidence of violent behavior during their first three weeks of incarnation (The Llama Therapeutic Group 1996). ... Some researchers claim that dolphin swims also boost the human immune system"(Blow 1995). ...

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Now, I haven't acted out and hurt others because of that image, but being a six-year-old and watching that evil act of violence gave me nightmares for weeks. ... These studies have all shown that children may become "immune" to the horror of violence, gradually except violence as a way to solve problems, imitate the violence they observe on TV, and identify with certain character, victims, or victimizers. ...

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