Mona Momtaz: Children and Violence

Nowadays，violence is very pervasive in the world. Children’s violence is increasing rapidly. Some people think the media contributes to the children’s violence, but some people consider outside environment leads to children’s violence. In my opinion, not only the media but also family and society can affect children’s violent behaviors.


The family has a negative effect on children. Firstly, parents can affect their children’s violent behaviors. Some parents do not pay attention to their actions. They set bad examples to their children. For example, when parents have arguments, they often use violence against each other, and some parents treat people impolitely; they usually use S words or F words. As a result, children copy and follow their parents’ actions and languages. Secondly, values of family also can impact on children and make them violent. Children receive ideas from the family. If the family gives wrong instructions to children, they will mislead children. For example, if a family thinks stealing is not bad thing, so the children will become thieves. Moreover, Family doesn’t help children learn some knowledge. Children can’t judge what is wrong and what is right. They engage in violent behaviors easily.

Sometimes, society contributes to criminal behaviors in children. People have influence on each other. If children’s friends have some violent behaviors, the children have the same problems. Children want to show their power by violence. For instance, children compete for status in the hierarchy of peer groups, which makes some of them masters and the rest subordinates. In addition, children can learn violent behaviors from public place. When they are at school, they speak coarse words, talk about violent programs, and hear some murder stories. They are excited to mock violent behavior. When children are in streets, maybe they see some people fighting, or shooting. They don’t consider the negative results. They are interested in following those activities.

In general, children’s violent behaviors exist in our lives. Every person and some organizations should be concerned about it. We have a responsibility to protect children. We should reduce and control the violent behaviors.