violence in children

First of all, to blame society for violence does not make sense.  We as individuals are responsible for our behavior.  And when we make mistakes or do something wrong we need to take responsibility and change our behavior by learning from our mistakes and not repeating them.  In turn, our children learn by our model.   I am glad to hear you are a medical student.  It seems as though you are use to texting.  Your comments are in lower case, your sentences do not begin with upper case letters, and words should be spelled correctly.  It appears on face value as if a child sumitted the comment, not a medical student.

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Thank you linda for the comments that you posted.Am quite used to chatting on the net and probably thats the reason for the shorthand being used.i will keep it in mind when i post anything in future.i am not saying that we run away from taking responsibility.Its just that we have to look at our mind diverting factors.this seeking out materialistic pleasures to run away from reality is not going to help the community or the children

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Hi Siddharth,
I think that your question is an interesting one. I think that our modern society may be indirectly linked to violence among children, but I also think it's important to look at it from a historical perspective. Just 100 years ago, most children were allowed more freedom to interact with nature and were more physically active. Today, most kids are stuck inside classrooms, having to sit still and pay attention. I think that there has been a connection made between being inactive and becoming depressed, and unfortunately, that can sometimes lead children to lash out. This is just one reason of many that I'm sure are relevant, so I think it's important to consider the many reasons behind violence among children, and not to blame on the media or violent video games.

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thanks for the reply.i appreciate you collaborating history with the current situation.but dont you think this materialism is catching up like an addiction

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No.  Strictly my opinion.  I don't believe there is any connection between materialism and increasing violence.  I can, however, see reasons for the opposite effect.  In Mazlo's hierarchy of needs, I associate violence with the lower levels.  Material goods raise us up the levels.

Media and communication, however, can result in increases in behaviors that add chaos, however,  In the days when children only learned from their parents, the village elders, the church (or equivalent), or the schools taught them, they had little exposure to, and therefore no "role models" of violent people, or at least I can imagine that it was rare.

But now, if you were to take what you read in the newspapers or see on television as representative of human civilization, we, frankly, look pretty bleak.  Now our children have, every day, exposure to violence through the media.  It would be absurd to think that this would have no impact on them.  The nightly news, the news services, the radio news, these are all relatively new "classrooms" in which our children learn by example.

This is not an advocacy for eliminating media!  

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It seems that you have already concluded that materialism is to blame for the growing violence in children.  Is this a question a teacher assigned?  It is an unsubstantiated opinion, not a fact, and to ask a question such as this is contrary to the principals of the scientific method.  That said, if we take your premise that materialism is indeed responsible for children being violent then an argument might be this:  Children see thousand of images daily of people that have goods that the children covet.  Television is rife with shows that glorify criminals that take whatever they want.  Children then make the decision that in order to achieve the things they want in life, violence is an acceptable path.

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