VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION IN CHILDREN

Violence and Aggression in Children



Violence and Aggression in Children

Introduction

Disrespectful, obnoxious and abusive behavior is something that most trouble children experiences. All children change their behavior to a great extent from time to time, but when rebelliousness, aggression and denial to comply occur, the conduct impacts the whole family and calls for more dangerous intrusion.

Violence in children, one of the first variables is imitation. Children who watch violence in the media can internalize the message that the world is a hostile place and that acting aggressively is better way to deal with it. Children become desensitized to violence. Research has proved that when children are exposed to violence whether it is in their home environment, schools, or community day in and day out, they lose their perspective and are not affected emotionally by the violence they see. Hussmann, PhD. Director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, conceives that “Formerly, if you're emotionally blunt to violence then it's much easier to get involve in fierceness” (Bandura, 1999). Cherly K. Olson, ScD, Co-director of the Center for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, isn't confident. Olson's premise is that the violence is not the main problem, the goals and context of the violence is the main root cause. She cites previous study on TV violence and behavior that states that kids shouldn't be playing violent games, she explains, for instance those where tracking down individuals and putting them to death is the main theme of the game (Hartley, 1992).

David Walsh, PhD. President of the National Institute on Media and the Family indicates that the generality of violence media has led to a “culture of disrespect” in which children get the content that it's satisfactory to deal each other impolitely and even sharply. Walsh goes on to express how that it is not inevitably so that a child who looks out to violent video games will right away run out and fight with someone. The actual affect is in determining norms, determining postures. His hypothesis is that as those bit by bit shifts, the differences of opinion begin to come out in doings (Cofer, 1996). Children who see domestic violence can go through long-term effects. Many analysts have established that children who maturate seeing abuse bear from emotional behavior and cognitive troubles. They are at bigger danger for depression, poor social public presentation, withdrawal, and charges for example as stomach aches, headaches and sometimes bed wetting. Boys show more aggressive conduct to some level than girls as they are habitual to witnessing at home. By the time their teen agers, some boys and girls are at altered danger for depression, drug and alcohol use, and also disruptive behavior (Neapolitan, 2001). Impacted young girls try to commit suicide more frequently. The legacy of domestic violence is advanced when children are grown to conceive that violence is a regular thing in ...