Violent films on children.

Many people believe that violent films effect the psychological behaviors of children if they watch the films at a young age. Other people that oppose this idea tend to believe that violent behavior from children are influenced by the children's society and environment; however, studies show that children who watch violent films at a young age develop violent behavior in their later years. Accordring to statistics from William Bennett, there have been approximately 250 deaths related to the movie Die Hard, and approximately 100 from Rambo 3, and so on.

"The National Committee on the causes and prevention of violence reported in 1969 that violence in the media had a negative effect on children. Violent films encourage violent forms of behavior and promotes violence in daily life as being acceptable. Professor Malamuth, chairman of communications studies at the University of California and Professor Edward Donnerstein, a psychologist at the Center for Communications Research at the University of Wisconsin, have both conducted studies that suggest viewers of media violence are detrimentally affected."

So kids, don't try this at home...really.

For more information, go to: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Film/film_violence.html