Violence is a learned behaviour

If violence is a learned behaviour then someone is teaching children and young adults how to be aggressive and violent. You don’t have to look far for the culprit but doing something about it is a problem, are you following me?

Learning starts at home, which means that the primary caregivers are responsible for what a child see's and hears. Violence on TV is one major contributing factor. So if the parent of primary caregiver allows the TV to play violent content the parent or primary caregiver should be held accountable for the childs actions when he or she later acts out based on the content they have been allowed to view. Dr Thomas Radecki claimes that research proved overwhelmingly the link between TV violence and everyday anger, aggressiveness and crime. He was an expert witness in several trials where TV was the spur to a violent crime. TV is not limited to the viewable content, video games as well contribute.

Other learned behavior's are learnt from viewing actions at close range. For instance if a child see's someone get angry and try to maul another person over with their car, they are likely to commit to the same actions later down the road because they think it is OK to do so. In the event that something like that were to happen somewhere down the road who do you think will be held responsible? The child who seen the event naturally, however, I believe the person who taught the child to commit the choice in behaviour should also have to pay a price as well, as they are the one who commited the act in front of the child, therefore teaching the child to commit the act.

Chidren's lives are molded at home. If a child is in a home full of violence, the child will learn to be violent, if chidren are reared in homes full of gossip, the child will learn to gossip. The list could go on and on. The point is this, measure each action, reaction and word that you practice in the view of your children, think to yourself before you act consiously, or not and before you speak or act, will the actions, or words be something you would like to see your child repeat somewhere down the road? Be a role model, not a contributor to the next generation of confused people.