Several experiments and studies have shown that watching violent television-shows can cause negative effects on children. A lot of shows view violent scenes; even "just funny" cartoons might include violence. The fact that viewers sometimes are not even conscious of how much violence they were confronted with, is a dangerous situation especially for children. Or are you always aware of violence when you watch television? I choose this topic, because I was annoyed about it for a long time and I think it is important that parents of young children know the effects of TV-violence and why these effects are caused, so they can do to protect their children.

The American Psychologycal Assosiation made a study with about hundred preschool children which were observed both before and after watching television; some watched cartoons that had a lot of aggressive and violent acts in them and others watched shows...