Crime and Teens

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…children watch an astonishing 5,000 hours by the first grade and 19,000 hours by the end of high school more time than they spend in school. By the age of 18 according to one estimate that a youngster will have seen 200,000 acts of violence on TV including 40,000 murderers. TV Guide looked at 10 channels on one normal 18-hour day program and found 1,846 individual acts of violence and every hour of prime time carries six to eight acts of violence.