s especially guns, poverty, and drugs. Children living in homes where parents are abusive receive little love and lack of positive role models. As a result, these children don’t Newman 4learn how to build satisfying relationships. Children living under such conditions have few opportunities to there self-esteem. When these children receive or witness verbal or physical abuse, violence becomes an acceptable reaction. The prevalence of violence in the media is also a major factor of teen violence. In the movie ''Total Recall'' in which several people explode when they are tossed out into the vacuum that surrounds Mars, the worst of the villains in this movie does not die such a simple death. Instead, during a fight with the hero on a platform surrounded by machinery, the villain’s arms are severed and the hero holds up two bloody stumps. One of the most outspoken critics in the media is Deborah Prothrow - Stith. Deborah spent most of her medical internship in the emergency room of a Boston hospital. During this period of time, Deborah saw many people injured or even killed by gangs and other supporters of teen violence. Deborah began to look for the causes of these crimes and ways to stop the violence. After years of study Deborah concluded that glamorized films contribute to teen violence. This is because such films tell children that violence is an acceptable way of solving a problem. Deborah is not the only professional to hold this opinion. Many psychologists insist that violence in the media has a negative affect on children. The more violence children watch on television, the more aggressive they become. Media executives repeatedly denied any link between violent films and aggression. The third cause of teen violence is the availability of guns. Currently more than fifty million handguns are circulating in ...
