Are Teens Today More Prone to Violence Than in the 1950's.

Today violence is everywhere. It i s always seen on our television programs, we hear about it on the radio and teens are participating in it on a regular basis via video games. Many parents today are trying to blame the change in our media system.
Teenagers of our generation are confronted with so much violence in their everyday lives whether it’s inside the home, or not. Unlike in the 1940’s many hardworking parents find it difficult to control everything their children see on the streets, or watch on television. Modern day parents are often so consumed with maintaining a household that they don´t have the time and energy it takes to oversee what their children are exposed too. Being a parent today is much more difficult than it was a generation ago. In the 1940’s and 1950’s raising children and teens was much simpler. TV images of that era showed that parenting involved simply teaching their teens to clean their rooms or do their homework. These days being a parent is much more demanding, parents have to shield and secure their children from schoolwork distractions, from sexual elements on the Internet and cable TV, and from dangers on the street.
These days many kids have music systems, computers, televisions and cell phones in their rooms. They spend extended periods of time talking and texting with their friends.
And there are even more distractions outside the home.
Unlike the 1940’s teens no longer hang out on the corner or in the front yard where Dad and Mom can yell at them to come inside as the evening winds down.

Instead they hang out at the mall, in movies theatres, at fast-food restaurants, or at clubs.

A Teenager, everyone has been one, is one, or will be one. We are adventurous and silly; they try to be as grown up as possible, yet it never seems to work. Through out each decade, the teenager seemed to evolve into the teens we see today.

The violence shown on television has a surprisingly negative effect. Television violence causes children and teenagers to become less caring, to lose their inhibitions, to become less sensitive, and also may cause violent and aggressive behavior. In a study on the connection between violence and television done with 1,565 teenage boys over a six-year period in London, William Belson, a British psychologist, found that every time a child saw someone being shot or killed on television they became less caring towards other people. William Belson also discovered that every time a child viewed this violence on television, they lost a fragment of their inhibitions towards others. In addition to William Belson’s study, studies done by many scientists and doctors show that seeing violence on television causes viewers to become less sensitive to the pain of others.
In addition, television violence causes aggressive behaviour in children. Many people believe that children who watch violent television programs display more aggressive behaviour than that displayed by children who do not. According to the results of many studies and reports, violence on television can lead to aggressive behaviour in children. Also, when television was introduced into a community of children for the first time, researchers observed a rise in the level of physical and verbal aggression among these children. The more television violence viewed by a child, the more aggressive the child is.
Television violence is also a cause of both violent and aggressive behaviour in teenage boys. According to the evidence in a study done by Turner, Hesse, and Peterson-Lewis, it was concluded that watching television violence had a long-term increase in aggression in boys. In addition to this study, Dr. William A. Belson evaluated fifteen hundred boys, aged thirteen to sixteen years, and he determined that boys with heavy television exposure are more likely to commit violent acts than other boys . In Belson’s study, he discovered that the effect of each violent act on television was collective, and over time, Belson discovered that the boys engaged in many aggressive acts, including painting graffiti, breaking windows, aggressive play, swearing, and threatening other boys with violence.
Furthermore, violence shown on television may cause violent behaviour in both children and teenagers. Children and teens from the 1940’s 1950’s we’re not exposed to such violence since televisions we’re commercially available in the 1930’s and we’re not common in every household till around the 1970’s.
Even without the media teen violence is a serious and rapidly growing problem in schools today. The problem is teenagers are getting more and more violent. Many of them resort to violence as a way to deal with anger and stress. Most of teenage violence starts with anybody in general who thinks they can beat up on people and act all tough and push everyone around. A source of this violence is the outcasts or nerds that the bullies pick on because they’re different, but the worst type of violence is racism. This violence may be coming from how they were raised because of their parents, due to their racism, or abuse. To put it simply something needs to be done to eliminate and reduce this violence and return a safe environment in schools.