Same sex Families
Violence may be defined as the intentional use of physical force, either by threatening or actual, against oneself, another person or a against a group whose end result is likely injury, death, psychological harm or maldevelopment. Violent media involves bloody video games, gun-glorifying gangster rap and generally any other form of creative violence (Reczek et al,2017). The main point of discussion in this paper is whether this type of media is useful or harmful to kids who are exposed to it. Points raised by Gerald Jones are criticized either positively or negatively in this paper (Cheng & Powell,2015).
The manner in which Gerald was brought up might have greatly affected his perception towards violence. For example, being brought up with kids who thought violence was normal would have made him feel that maybe the whole world was wrong and that his parents were right or maybe his parents were wrong[2]. There seems to be a misunderstanding on the side of his parents[3]. They are providing comics due to their lofty messages of pacifism and tolerance but what their son sees is the violence and the juvenile nature in them (Reczek et al ,2017.p 2386).
One of the points raised here is that children need violent entertainment to explore those feelings they have been taught to deny, and to integrate those feelings into a more whole, more complex, more resilient selfhood (Cheng & Powell 616-620)1. However strong this point may seem to be, it is more of weakness and inability to face the real challenge of parenthood when it comes to curbing violence in kids (Gates, 2015.p 67). A practical saying is that whatever a kid is taught at young age will not be forgotten even at old age[4]. Take for example we allowed our kids to spend much of their time with drug addicts so that they can learn to stay positively with the issue of drug abuse, what kind of a generation will we bring up? Kids cannot make well refined decisions and thus need to be well advised and not let to learn by themselves (Gates 70)2.
[1] Pascual-Soler, Marcos, Dolores Frias-Navarro, Jaime Barrientos-Delgado, Laura Badenes-Ribera, Hector Monterde-i-Bort, Manuel Cárdenas-Castro, and José Berrios-Riquelme. “Factorial Invariance of the Scale Beliefs About Children’s Adjustment in Same-Sex Families in Spanish, Chilean, and Hispanic University Students.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 39, no. 2 (2017): 238-262.
[2] Reczek, Corinne, Russell Spiker, Hui Liu, and Robert Crosnoe. “The Promise and Perils of Population Research on Same-Sex Families.” Demography 54, no. 6 (2017): 2385-2397.
[3] Pascual-Soler, Marcos, Dolores Frias-Navarro, Jaime Barrientos-Delgado, Laura Badenes-Ribera, Hector Monterde-i-Bort, Manuel Cárdenas-Castro, and José Berrios-Riquelme. “Factorial Invariance of the Scale Beliefs About Children’s Adjustment in Same-Sex Families in Spanish, Chilean, and Hispanic University Students.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 39, no. 2 (2017): 238-262.
[4] Gates, Gary J. “Marriage and family: LGBT individuals and same-sex couples.” The Future of Children (2015): 67-87.