According to researchers, 90% of teenagers between the ages of 13-17 watch television as soon as they get home from school. This percent is higher than any other activity that is available. (Teen Leisure Habits: TV Still On Top) Television has many affects on youth, and most of them are negative. Those affects are obesity, lacking in school, stereotypes, violence, watching advertisements and commercials, and sexual activity. Obesity is a problem because when kids are watching television, they usually are eating food and they do not realize that they are eating so much. It is proven that if you watch more than two hours of television a day, you have a higher chance of being obese as an adult. Television has an affect on school work as well. The youth today who watch television have lower vocabularies and have lower test scores. People usually shown on television are not realistic and they are stereotyped against. Kids and teenagers today believe that the skinny and beautiful people on television are actually how people are and that is not true. Violence plays a big role on youth today. A study has shown that if four year old's watch violent television, they have a greater chance of becoming bullies in middle school and high school. Advertisements and commercials are targeted towards children, and it works because children of the ages 12 and under convince their parents to spend $500 million a year. (Teens and the Media) Sexual activity has also increased since teenagers are watching television. Professionals encourage parents of teens to be involved in their teens lives because it is proven that if they do, the rate of sexual activity in teens decrease. This means less teen pregnancies and diseases. Television has a very bad impact on youth today and it needs to be fixed. (Study Points to Health Effects of Television on Teens)
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