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Does Television Violence Make Children Significantly More Violent?

Abstract
Television is a pervasive element in American society today and is seen as having a great deal of influence, especially over the young. According to psychological research, violence on television affects children negatively. The major effects of seeing violence on television are that children may become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others, more fearful of the world around them and more likely to behave in aggressive ways toward others.
The questions that are to be addressed in this paper are the following: What causes television violence to make children more violent toward others? What are the implications? Are there solutions to television violence? How can we begin to resolve the issue of the effects of violent television on children? This paper will address the answers to these questions.

Introduction
The world today truly shows that youths are influence......

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