Flashmag Digizine Edition Issue 174 January 2020 | Page 86

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However, “the rate of violence shown on television during rush hour has remained constant, ranging from five to six acts of violence per hour; during the Saturday morning programs intended for them, children see 20 to 25 acts of violence per hour "Research conducted in Canada reveals that:" at the end of primary school, each child has witnessed more than 8,000 murders and over 100,000 miscellaneous acts of violence, and that, while attending primary school for 12,000 hours, children spend an average of 18,000 hours watching television in the same period. These realities are far from changing, in this era of all-out technological development, which instead of helping human beings in their daily lives, could end up being one of the essential reasons for their ruin.

Article written by Hubert Marlin Jr. with the assistance of David M. Day's study, Carol A. Golench, Jyl MacDougall, Cheryl A. Beals-Gonzaléz, On THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AT SCHOOL IN CANADA 1995