The television affects so many children in ways of violence, effects of the child 's development and sexual content in today 's society. Violence in watching television is an everyday thing that happens. You see most of this violence on your television screen and even on the internet. There have been a lot of studies that show what happens to children when they watch television such as repeating the violence they see on TV, or even use this violence to solve problems that can be fixed in a different way. These studies also say that watching violence on TV it causes aggressiveness, increased heart rate, fear, discomfort, perspiration, and disgust. There are different side of the studies one says that the media who market the violence like video games argue it is safe entertainment and the others say it just promote the violence for the children who …show more content…
With sexual content can harm a child in many different ways, and they may never come out of the harmful behavior. The ways it can affect a child is by stress which can cause a child to have disturbed sleep, difficulty paying attention and concentrating, anger and irritability, withdrawal, repeated and intrusive thoughts, and extreme distress. The major things are causing psychiatric conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Statistics shows that from watching TV so much as a child 70% of the shows has sexual content. With children watching things like this can also harm themselves or even other children such as doing what they seen on TV to another child thinking it is okay because they watched it and didn 't get in trouble for that. Children see things on TV and believe it is ok to do what is being told on there because that is what they are used to seeing. Things like smoking is what they are supposed to do because the television is saying it is