Research Paper on:
The Ethical Concern of Children and Television

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From television to film to music and the peer pressures those all entail, the youth of today are highly susceptible to the media and what it teaches them. But, does  this mean that parents no longer truly raise their children? In all honesty the parents do raise the children and they are the ones who are perhaps ultimately responsible for  the behavioral health of their children, teaching them what is right and wrong and thus providing them with ethics. In some ways by allowing children to view too much television,  to leave the children to their own devices and thus be influenced heavily by the media, in turn gives the children the same values their parents have, values which are  perhaps highly influenced by the media as well. Bearing that in mind we present the following paper which examines how children react to the media, and the relationship the two  share. The paper then examines how children and parents relate in terms of behavioral health and development. Children and the Media As mentioned, there can be little doubt that  if left to the media, without explanation or intervention, what a child hears and sees on the television and in the media can seriously affect how they grow and learn.  It can seriously affect all aspects of their behavioral health. For example, "Exposure to and the influence of media violence directly correlates to violent behavior, according to the AAP statement.  By the age of 18, children and adolescents witness more than 200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that from the age of two  to 18 a child will spend about 6 hours each day exposed to the media through television, the computer, and video games. Behavior is learned, and it is often learned