In Alabama, a nine-year-old boy received a bad report card from a teacher, and decided to send her poison candy, as he had seen on TV the night before. In California, a seven-year-old girl sprinkled ground up glass into lamb stew, because she wanted to see if the results would be the same as they were on TV. In many people's living rooms across the world sits a big outlet for violence, better known as the television. Mostly it's the children who view it, and are pulled into its realistic world of violence with sometimes devastating results. Much research has gone into showing why children are so mesmerized by television and the action that takes place in it. Violent television viewing does affect children, and the effects have been seen in numerous cases. Through research and basic observations, it's obvious that violent actions on TV affecting kids of all ages, all over the world. The inevitable effects of violence on TV on children include aggressiveness, unrealistic fear, and desensitization.
             As a result of television, children may become more aggressive, or behave in ways that are harmful to others. Television violence tends to make children more aggressive and more willing to commit acts of hostility, without provocation, towards others. Television is usually a main thing children are exposed to so they perceive it as a reality and try to implement it. For example, in a recent study of one hundred children, fifty children were put in a room watching shows with violence, and the other fifty watching shows without violence. Researchers noticed that the children who watched the violent shows were more likely to strike out at playmates, argue, and disobey than those children that watched the nonviolent programs (Howe 72). Children, who view shows where violence is very realistic, frequently repeated or unpunished, are more likely to accept and imitate what they see. By watching aggression, children can learn how to...