Parents and others who heed for young people can help them learn to deal with emotions without using violence. Because violence results from conflicts between people, learning nonviolent ways to control anger and solve problems can prevent it. Teaching your teen, through words and actions, that violence is never an acceptable form of behavior is very important. Busy parents who want to protect their children from media violence have a difficult task before them. While many parents are concerned about the graphic violence and put-down humor in many kids' shows, there's a growing subculture of violence that parental radar often misses.
Dejection, according to the National Institutes of Health, occurs with superior occurrence between teenagers today than in the past. Since many young people’s behaviors are attributed to "normal adjustments", they are often not identified as troubled and do not get the help they need. Many teens who believe their problems to be unsolvable, become so despairing that they attempt suicide and many succeed. Although other causes of teen suicide and violence exist, depression is a major factor. Adolescents often "act out", obscuring depression with aggression, elopement, or antisocial acts. Manic-depressive disorder also begins in post puberty and may be manifested by impulsive episodes, irritability and loss of control alternating with periods of withdrawal and excessive sleeping. If parents and professionals as natural to adolescence consider these behavioral signs, the disorders go unrecognized and crude. (Arnett, 1999)
In spite of of the strengths or weaknesses of this one longitudinal cram, there are dozens of studies showing that exposure to media violence increases the likelihood of violent behavior. Some studies found children imitating unusual aggressive behaviors that they had just seen on a TV program, while others are based on parents' measures of children's total TV viewing over a period of......
