These days, we are seeing and increasing amount of violence on television, and this is having a negative impact on children's behaviour. Do you agree or disagree?

Nowadays,

children

spend more time than ever watching television.

However

, most of the programmes broadcasted daily contain high amounts of

violence

. It is agreed that increased exposure to increased levels of aggressivity is affecting

children

's attitudes negatively. Analysing the adverse effects that

violence

has on human behaviour as well as

children

's tendency to reproduce what they see, will prove that. Generally speaking, it is widely known that

violence

has negative effects on people.

For example

, when we watch a violent movie, our feelings are usually affected in a negative way,

thus

we tend to feel nervous and uncomfortable. Thanks to numerous behavioural experiments, scientists came to the conclusion that a person who witnessed a violent scene, directly or virtually, is more likely to act aggressively than others who have not experienced the same situation.

Hence

, it is scientifically proven that human behaviour is negatively affected by violent movies, images or situations.

On the other hand

,

children

are pretty easy to influence, compared to adults. They learn by observing and repeating what they see.

Consequently

, when a child spends most of his free time watching violent tv programmes, he soon begins to adopt aggressive behaviour.

For instance

, every day we hear about more and more fights in schools or about episodes of

children

punching their best friend or, even worse, a teacher.

This

is clearly a consequence of the increased amount of

violence

on TV. To conclude,

violence

affects negatively, and psychologists have proven that.

This

is even more true when it comes to

children

because they are easier to influence than adults.

Therefore

, there is a link between the increased levels of

children

's aggressivity and the growth in the amount of

violence

on TV.