Media is a powerful force in children s lives .
Many children now spend more time in front of a screen than in school.
Lesons about how people treat each other and what they should do when they have a conflict. More and more, research is showing how deeply media violence influences the ways children behave. Even when children are not in front of the screen, what they do is highly influenced by the toys or other products marketed with TV shows. Media violence has become a public health issue that affects us all. Let us work together to reduce the problems media violence creates for our children and our society.