This works when children under the age of seventeen are not admitted into certain movies unless accompanied by an adult. This is effective but only when the theaters follow the rules and when parents who do accompany their children know which movie is acceptable for their children to see. These systems are effective for TV and movies but what about other forms of media violence such as the news, books, and video games? Video games seem to get increasingly violent and yet parents are still allowing their children to play them, and books are easy to come across as long as you have a library card or a few dollars. The violence in the news seems to be one form of brutality that will not be departing from our society until crime disappears all together. So the parents do have an effect on what their children are exposed to and they have a lot of control over most of the violence their children are witnessing. Lately, recent crime increases in white upper and middle-class parts of our nation have brought focus to this media violence problem. Many people have stereotyped urban areas as criminally prosperous areas and have only focused on this problem when it began to happen in the areas of our nation where things were supposed to have a lower crime rate. Small towns in our country are beginning to have an increase in crime and many people believe it is due to the violence in the media. The shows that they watch and music they listen to, people are saying, causes them to act out the violence in school shootings and other violent acts such as vandalism and racism. Can the shows, video games and other sources really desensitize these kids and make them extremely violent? In the preceding argument, we said that the parents have much to do with their children and what they are exposed to. So then why are many children who have close and personal relationships with their parents turn to violence? Enter media violence and what many people believe is ...
