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Schmidt's study also stopped following the toddlers at age 3; she acknowledges that some cognitive changes may not occur until children are a few years older. TV exposure in babies younger than 2 doesn't do any good, Schmidt and Christakis agree.
A large proportion of children's media exposure includes acts of violence that are witnessed or âvirtually perpetratedâ (in the form of video games) by young people. By 18 years of age, the average young person will have viewed an estimated 200000 acts of violence on television alone. 21 The National Television Violence study evaluated almost 10000 hours of broadcast programming from 1995 through 1997 and revealed that 61% of the programming portrayed interpersonal violence, much of it in an entertaining or glamorized manner. 22 The highest proportion of violence was found in children's shows.