Television injects violence in children ??

ĐỀ 19/5/2011

Television injects violence in children, and programs with violence scenes should be banned. Agree of disagree?

AGREE : Kids initate what they have seen

DISAGREE:

-         Other sources : internet, newspaper

-         Lack of parental caring, environment and moral education

According to social studies, violence among children is escalating day by day, which keeps the entire nation on alert, especially their parents. Some people cite the best solution to this thormy issue is to eliminate all violence – related programs on television while others perceive it as a drastic answer.

On one hand, it is undeniable that with a view to attracting an increasing number of viewers each year, programmers try to modify their movies, shows and documents dotted with sensational scenes, particularly violence one. Studies have shown that some kids who used guns and threatened others at school confessed that they just imitated naively their heroic actions on television. In this case, television programs are partly to blame. Nevertheless, would it be totally equitable when the reasons are traced to others sources, say, internet, newspaper and others, apart from television? Internet is a typical example of having such viral influence which affects adversely kids’ behavior due to belligerent online games while newspapers and picture books are fraught with images with guns, whips and other means, even in the hands of sey teenagers.

In addition, the lack of parental caring, environment and moral education are culprits of spiral violence among children. Born and growing up in families where their parents often resort to barbaric actions in teaching children, the latter are vulnerable to see this behavior as acceptable whereas educators, instead of endeavoring to engender in children moral codes, are too busy with academic teaching and cast this mission on the parents who are unfortunatively in the circle of rat race. Children are not spared the social effects when they are living in the society in which the unemployment rate is on the rise, leading to a corresponding climb in crime rate. In a word, without close supervision of parents and educators and a crime – free ambience in places children live, it is undeniable that they will be easily injected with any flow of thinking and action, especially from uncut sources on the internet, television and through unhealthy real life experience.

Other effective remedies to this dilemma are that programs on television should be censored before being publicly shown along with  the limitation of age in watching any violence – related movies. More importantly, it is time for government to set limit on themselves for the fact that they often let advertisers and producers promote sensational programs for the sake of profit, rather than educational one. It would be ironic to expect kids to be exempt from violence when each day, their eyes are awake with aggressive actions from celebrities on television’s advertisement.

-            Thorny (adj) gai góc, hóc búa (n)thorn: gai (n)thorniness : tính gai góc

-         Imitate (v) bắt chước

-         Fraught + with (adj) xếp đầy

-         Belligerent (adj) (n) tham chiến, thù địch

-         Whip (n) roi da

-         Barbaric (adj) dã man, hoang dã

-         Engender (v) sinh ra, gây ra, đem lại

-         Inject (v) tiêm, phun, truyền

-         Remedy (n) biện pháp khắc phục, cứu chữa

-         Celebrity (n) sự nổi tiếng, danh tiếng

-         Drastic (adj) mạnh mẽ, quyết liệt