Strong family foundation may be considered as the best way to condone social problems as family members can influence the individual at a more personal level, allowing ethical values to be instilled from an early age. With moral values instilled in the individual at a young age, he is less likely to cause any social problems in the future as he is able to differentiate what is good and bad.
However, a strong family foundation is not able to address social ills alone as there are many sources of influence that the individual is exposed to. Media is an irresponsible influence. Television show producers resort to anything just to get ratings, ignoring moral values. For example, people who are exposed to media violence tend to be more aggressive and violent. Some experts, like University of Michigan professor L. Rowell Huesmann, argue that fifty years of evidence show "that exposure to media violence causes children to behave more aggressively and affects them as adults years later." Thus, issue of alleviating social ills can be addressed if strong family foundations is complemented with similar values perpetuated in media and through peers.
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I feel that your statement that Media is an irresponsible influence is quite a strong assumption?
ReplyDeleteIt's not really necessary that media IS an irresponsible influence even though it does indeed play an influential role in an irresponsible manner.
I would say that media has been exploited as a tool by users in spreading irresponsible values which translates to a bad influence that the individual is exposed to, thus adding on to the social ills that still remain.
I think that's the only prob I see? Yeah, hope it helps.