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/^t/Television is a most visible, ubiquitous device to have entered our lives in the last 40 years. Today, television is almost in every house and it is on in average household for some seven hours a day. Violence on television leads to the agressive behavior of children because television does influence some kinds of behavior. Today, an average child sits in front of the tube about 20 hours a week. Most programmes kids watch is the adult television that offers endless sagas of terror, chase and murder. A child learns how to hit, cause pain and suffering, it can learn nothing but agression. Although television has been created in order to entertain people, one has to remember that it has also helped to increase violence in the last 20 years.