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average child reaches 16 years of age, he

will see over 200,000 acts of violence,

including 33,000 murders. This was Time

Magazine, June 1989. You know that that

statistic is far higher now. By the time the

average teenager reaches 16 years of age,

he will see over 400,000 illicit sexual scenes

in movies and television. By the time a child

finishes elementary school, he will see 8,000

murders, 100,000 acts of violence on

television — and, again, that is a lot higher

right now. A study that was done by TV

Guide in 1993 reported that in a single day,

TV showed over 1800 acts of violence, over

300 assaults, over 300 uses of guns, and

over 200 punches. Again, this is NBC

Nightly News in 1993.

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