Concern over kids and video violence

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Concern over kids and video violence

Published: 1 Nov 2012 at 15.00
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A spate of recent violent incidents involving young people has prompted warnings of the need to re-examine the impact of television and video games on copycat behaviour.

Adisak Palitpolkarnpim, head of Child Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Centre at Ramathibodi Hospital, said two news stories about death and violence involving young people this week gave added reason for concern.

On Sunday, Oct 25, an eight-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree. She suffered lack of oxygen to the brain for an estimated 10 minutes. She was rushed to Ramathibodi Hospital and was still under intensive care while doctors sought to establish how much damage had been done to her brain.

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barryw
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Discussion 6 : 02 Nov 2012 at 09.326
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I agree with Dis #4 and #5. It is the parents job to discipline their child, but all too often kids are allowed to do whatever they like, either because that is the parents choice or because the parents seem not to have the time or own self-discipline to be parents. And when violence is shown every single night on every single tv channel, and 99.99 percent of video games encourage violence, what does society expect the result to be?
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Discussion 5 : 01 Nov 2012 at 22.595
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Where are the role models .They sure arent on Thai dramas .Slapping women around lying stealing cheating acting superficial are all shown on prime time TV night after night .
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Discussion 4 : 01 Nov 2012 at 21.124
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It isn't TV or video games. It is a combination of poor parental skills, poorer education, and a government that doesn't care.
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Discussion 3 : 01 Nov 2012 at 20.203
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It might help if the "experts" looked at some actual evidence before preaching. The most reliable studies, and declining crime rates in many countries, plainly contradict that popular media fed belief that TV shows and violent video games, even those with the most extreme sexual violence, cause violent behaviour in kids. It just isn't so.

Why does the Bangkok Post not worry about the appallingly low academic standards that these "experts" are setting in such stories as this?
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Discussion 2 : 01 Nov 2012 at 20.042
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TV and games or no different than school. Children learn what they are taught. Many spend as much or more time in front of TV or Video games than they do in school. We learn what we are taught so what information is being presented.
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Discussion 1 : 01 Nov 2012 at 18.541
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Maybe all this violence has also something to do with the fact that many parents seems to think that children just grow up by themselves and that proper parenting and being a role model is for some parents not worth thinking about. And then there are obviously all the prominent criminals and terrorists who can do whatever they want and who never go to jail. How many role models are there left in Thailand?
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