Violence on Television In "television violence and its effects on young children" Betty Jo Simmons, Kelly Stalsworth, and Heather wentzel describe how television violence affect young children. They describe how 98% of all households have at least one television set in the household. They also described that young children watch at least 28 hours of television each week and before the age of 12 the average child has viewed over 8,000 murders. Violence viewed by children is one of …showed first 75 words of 912 total…

…showed last 75 words of 912 total…In conclusion television violence does have a very big impact on children's lives. It is very important that we start educating our children very early on and try and get them away from those more violent shows and gear them toward more educational type programs. It is the parent's responsibility to teach their children about the effect of violence and to teach them that the stuff they see on television is fake and not real.