How Violence in the Media Affects Children Have you ever looked at someone and thought, I wonder what made them the way they are today?" When do, you often have to look back at a person's childhood. How have certain events affected them? Over time, violence has become dramatically evident in children's lives starting to allow them to watch everything on TV. For example: Family Guy, all those shows about swimming for adults. These violent TV programs could cause so many problems for children and parents later in life carefully monitor children's viewing habits so that they have limited exposure to violence, increase their physical activity, and decrease aggressive behavior To begin with, parents should carefully monitor their children's viewing habits, because the body of Empirical research linking children's exposure to media violence with the resulting increase in their aggressive and violent behavior was already above average in the 1970s (Bushman and Huesmann 6). Infrequent exposure is unlikely to produce lasting consequences, but parents should be urged to protect their children from the type of repeated exposures that heavy playing of violent video games or immersion in violent television programs could produce. An example of what can happen is Isabelle Martin. She grew up in a tough neighborhood and only had her mother to raise her. She grew up surrounded by countless acts of violence in her neighborhood. He never had a steady job and was always socializing with the wrong crowd of people. He started taking drugs and his life became a downward spiral. Therefore, parents should consider the district around them. Are children easily into......middle of paper......rom? How can it be managed?." Nscu.edu. North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, May 30, 2000. Web. January 10, 2013. . (DeBord)Nagle, J.(2009) Violence in Film, Music, and the Media. 1st Edition. Rosen: The Rosen PublishingGroup Inc, 63. American Academy of Pediatrics “Political Statement: Violence in the Media,” Pediatrics (November 2009): Vol. 124, no. 5, pp. 1495–503. .nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19841118Gardner, Dan.(2007) “Scary Anecdotes Don't Tell the Real Story of Gun Violence: 1. Web. March 8, 2013.” Hogan MJ.(2005) Jun Adolescents and violence in the media: six crucial issues for practitioners Adolesc Med Clin.16(2):249-68, vii:16111617.