than woman who watched fewer or none of these shows.
             According to psychological research, violence on television negatively affects children. Hundreds of studies of the effects of televised violence on children have found that children may:
             „h Become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others
             „h May become fearful of the world around them
             „h Gradually accept violence as a way of life or a way to solve problems
             „h Imitate the violence they observe, or identify with certain characters, victims and/or victimizers
             „h They may also be more likely to behave in aggressive ways towards others
             Sometimes, watching a single violent program can increase aggressiveness. Many times when children view programs where the violence is quite realistic or those who act in such violence go unpunished, they are more likely to imitate what they have just seen. Here are just a few tragic examples of what children are learning from televised violence.
             In 1982 when the movie the Deer Hunter was broadcasted on cable TV, shortly after several people had killed themselves while playing a game known as Russian roulette which involves a gun, this ¡§game¡ had been featured in the movie. Not to long ago several American youths died while imitating a scene in the movie the Program, a movie financed by Disney. In this movie the youths laid themselves down in the middle of a highway. However, in the movie no one was killed, unfortunately in real-life several young people were killed. Even more recent a 17-year-old French youth blew himself up. He was trying to make himself a bomb with a bicycle handle; he had learned how to do this on an episode of MaGyver. Then there is the 5-year-old boy who killed his younger sister in a house fire after watching an episode of Beavis and Butthead. These are just a few examples of what TV violence is doing to America today. Assume that for the sake of argument, t...