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What is Death to our Children?

What is Death to our Children?. Amanda Baker Kayla Brodner Tara Baade. Death is just a game. “Research shows that as much as 92% of children between 4 and 17 years of age play video games.”.

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What is Death to our Children?

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  1. What is Deathto our Children? Amanda Baker Kayla Brodner Tara Baade

  2. Death is just a game...

  3. “Research shows that as much as 92% of children between 4 and 17 years of age play video games.” “Playing video games increases aggression in some children and young adults and normalizes killing, some doctors said.” “Snyder said exposure to violence in video games can desensitize a teen to the real thing.” "Exposure to violent video games, even E rated video games, increases aggressive thoughts, increases pro-social behavior and increases general arousal," said Dr. Greg Snyder. “In the news there was a MURDER where a young person acted out what he saw on the video game he was playing. And people say that video games do not affect a young person???” "Then, when they're done playing, that's all that's on their mind. Kill. Kill. Kill.”

  4. Deathis entertainment...

  5. “More than 12% of children aged 10 to 14 are watching R-rated violent movies” “Studies have also shown a twelve percent increase in aggressive behavior after watching violent television.” “More than one thousand scientific studies and reviews conclude that significant exposure to media violence increases the risk of aggressivebehaviour in certain children, desensitizes them to violence and makes them believe that the world is a ‘meaner and scarier’ place than it is.” “Over sixty percent of television shows being shown in prime time contain some form of violence.”

  6. Death is everywhere...

  7. Kids start playing with guns at an early age...

  8. ... Which can have deadly consequences.

  9. Our children are immersed indeathdaily.

  10. What are the affects of our children living in a society where death is an everyday occurrence?

  11. Reference Page http://allpsych.com/journal/violentmedia.html http://kickyoutube.com/watch/?v=u2RRMp2swz0 http://www.ketv.com/family/15249738/detail.html http://www.1timothy4-13.com/files/family/videogames.html http://www.actiontrip.com/features/howdangerousarethey.phtml http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/19/usschoolshoot_mn.jpg http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20080805/kids-and-violent-movies-a-scary-trend

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