From 1979 to 1989, the firearm homicide rate for persons 15-19 increased sixty-one percent. Male youth in the U.S. are more than five times as likely to be victims of homicide as to youths in many other developed countries. The violence in many entertainment programs has increased to over seventeen percent. The violence in entertainment today is affecting society as evidenced by the content of the material, the increase rate of violence, and the reluctance to …showed first 75 words of 927 total…

…showed last 75 words of 927 total…the ratings should be at the corner of the screen the entire program. America’s television programmers are failing in their attempts to monitor on-screen violence, and young kids are being harmed in the process. Furthermore, if we give access to young adolescents who may not be able to clarify reality from fantasy, then in the future we will all be living in a world of fear; would desire to live in society like that