Bandura, Ross and Ross haveconcluded that boys are more likely to imitate violent behavior and their aggressioncomes forth more when it is stimulated by outside models. "The tendency for boys to bemore aggressive than girls is the largest and most consistent gender difference inbehavior, and is quite clear by the age or 2 or 2 1/2." Moreover, the effects of televisionwatching on children's aggressiveness was studied by Leonard Eron, of the University ofIllinois. He concluded that boys were significantly more aggressive than girls afterwatching violent shows. Ten years later, he conducted a study on the same children whenthey were nineteen years old. This time there was no correlation between televisionviewing and aggressive behavior although there was a positive correlation between theboys television viewing habit at the age of nine and their aggressive behavior and agenineteen. "Thus, for boys (though not for girls), watching violent TV shows at age 9appeared to lead to an increase in aggressiveness at age 19." In short, most of the evidence shown throughout the essay concludes that themedia indeed increases violent and aggressive behaviors in people. Therefore, with thisavailable information, why do parents let their children watch these violent movies andtelevision shows? The television networks and movie producers should not be the onlyones blamed for violent scenes. The real blame should be directed at the parents. Inaddition, "limiting children's exposure to television violence should become part of thepublic health agenda." ...
