The Effects of television Violence on Children What has the world come to these days?. It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The home is a major source of violence. In many people’s living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violence scenes with sometimes devastating results. Research has shown that The truth about television violence and childre