Many people are concerned about the violence shown in television programs today. The National Television of Violence Study was conducted in 1996 and again in 1997, by researchers at the Universities of North Carolina, Texas, California, and Wisconsin; this study showed sixty percent of programs viewed contained some form of violence. After this study was done many parents took steps in order to prevent their children form viewing violence and sex on television by installing boxes which …showed first 75 words of 2147 total…

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