The Effects of Television Violence on Children What is the world coming to? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, at home, and now more increasingly at schools across the country. For many children the source of violence is right in their own living rooms. 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. Much research has gone into showing why children are so mesmerized by