2. Television is great! Its highly entertaining, has educational values and opens worlds
for children. Viewers with positive role models have a better influence on children's
behavior. But the opposite can have an opposite effect. TV tends to affects kids
health, behavior and family life.
3. Parents let children as young as 8 to watch extreme
sex and violence films at home. Some kids are being
traumatized by shocking scenes and have nightmares.
Psychiaristrists are afraid that many may end up
emotionally brutalised because of it.
4. Fact
Half of children 8-11 now watch 18 certificate videos,
some left with deeply disturbed images.
5. Parents turn a blind eyes to what there kids watch,
even though their was a legislation to stop video shops
selling or hiring unsuitable films to children. This
happened after James bulger killers had been
influenced by violent videos. Angry MPs want to forces
children not to let such films get in to children's hands,
but often it’s the parents fault. They say films the buy
themselves are just left lying at home.
6. fact
1 in 10 children have seen the horrible, blood
sucking exploits of Hannibal Lecter in the film
‘Silence of the Lambs’, and that same number of
children have seen the sexual explicit film ‘Basic
Instict’ staring Sharon Stone.
7. Fact
“In 1992 44% of programmes contained bad
language compared with 49% in 1993 and 46% in
1994. Commensurately, the average rate of
occurrence rose by 10% from 6.9 incident per hour in
1992 to 7.6 in 1993, and it has remained steady at
7.5 incidents per hour in 1994.” – Broadcasting
standards Council
8. Children can tell the difference between fantasy and
reality. The more real an image Is the more
frightening they find it.
9. Us researchers have found that there are over four times more
violent acts committed in children's cartoons than in adult
prime-time programing – gerbner et al
10. Classic cartoons, such as bugs bunny, road runner,
wile e. coyote, the pink panther, the Flintstones and
tom and jerry have been criticized for letting violence
go unpunished, for failing to show it causes pain and
injury, for linking violence with heroic acts and for
encouraging children to think violence is funny.
11. More recent cartoons such as transformers,
teenagers mutant ninjas turtles, saloon moon, the
Simpsons, ren and stimpy, south park, x-men, biker
mice from mars and sonic underground have been
equally berated for their violent content.
12. An extra criticism is that some cartoons are
associated with toys, such as action man, and
transformers or other violent computer games such
as sonic underground, which father encourages
violent play children.
