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Through appropriate modeling, teaching our children to resolve conflicts with words rather than actions, and by reducing the amount of violence they witness. Children first learn by watching and imitating. ... With the average child watching more than three hours of television a day, opportunities for them to be watching...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A case report of a 5-year-old child who severely injured his 22-month-old cousin while imitating a violent wrestling move suggests that children may indeed be affected by the violence they see on television.
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www.lionlamb.org/news_articles/5yrold_injures_baby_wrestling.htm
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Their superior abstract reasoning abilities and their tendency at this age to challenge conventional authority make adolescents particularly susceptible to imitating some kinds of television violence, ... But the effect of television violence leads these "at-risk" children to be even more aggressive than they would otherwise be.
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www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/research_docum...
www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/research_documents/reports/violence/tv_violence_child.cfm
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All of this spills over to our children as much as the outright violence. In Canada, educators complained that grade school kids were imitating TV wrestlers by grabbing their crotches and yelling "Suck it" - sometimes at their teachers.
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www.fcc.gov/Speeches/Tristani/spgt916.html
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TELEVISION VIOLENCE: A REVIEW OF THE EFFECTS ON CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT AGES; Television-watching Habits; Approach to Processing Information and Watching Television; Susceptibility to Imitating Television Violence and Crime;
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www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/familyviolence/pdfs/tvvi...
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/familyviolence/pdfs/tvviol.pdf
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In modern times, moral pressure groups have tried to 'protect' children from popular literature, the music hall, the cinema, comics, television and 'video nasties'. It's important to see the issue of TV violence and children's behaviour in a broader social, cultural and historical context.
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www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/TF33120/tv-violence_and_ki...
www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/TF33120/tv-violence_and_kids.html
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; Influence of Television Violence on Children ; By: anna ... Television violence can make children more accepting of aggressive behaviour, that is, they become desensitised to the effects of violence (possibly through habituation).
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One example cited by Huesmann is that 59 percent of those who watched an above-average amount of violence on television as children, were involved in more than the average number of such aggressive incidents later in life.
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www.abelard.org/tv/tv.php
www.abelard.org/tv/tv.php
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A child watching a children's TV program will witness on average one violent ... Children imitate those who succeed, and in cartoons, violence succeeds. ...
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middlehighschool.suite101.com/article.cfm/whats_up_girl...
middlehighschool.suite101.com/article.cfm/whats_up_girl_talk
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