At this time in the nation, there is a concern about violent behavior by adolescents. On a daily basis the public can turn on a news program or read a newspaper and hear about the increase in adolescent violence happening around the nation. There are many influences or events that can set a child onto a course that leads to violent behavior. The public all wonder what causes the adolescent to carry out the violent behavior. We may even ask ourselves whether he or she live in a poverty or a wealthy neighborhood? were they in the wrong place at the wrong time? is the violence a result of race or gender? or did the media play a role? .
Literature, poetry, films, TV movies, and video games are full of violent content. The mass media portrays violence in many different ways, and it is difficult to generalize its impact. Social scientists who think that violent entertainment has a bad effect do not agree on what kind of violent images or ideas are harmful. Some researchers say cartoons; others say movies in which a violent hero is rewarded; and others say violence in video games. The guide of Physciology and it's Practice supports this ides by stating "It's not that the television, movies, music, and games of our culture are necessarily evil in themselves "though in some cases they are "but that our attraction to them can draw us away from the good and the peaceful and push us onto the very threshold of the door to malevolence and death."".
There is research that supports the idea that parental communication impacts violent behavior later in life. We call children's bad behavior "acting out," which really means they are communicating behaviorally rather than verbally. Some might ask if this an unconscious attempt for children to prove to their parents that they disagree or rebel. Some researchers may say a child with parents twho are committed to their own moral beliefs and communicate this is to them will be more likely to ponder these beliefs and not act out violently.