Violence linked to TV, teen mothers
Violence linked to TV, teen mothers
Douglas Todd, Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Contrary to conventional wisdom, it's not necessarily because there are more crime-ridden big cities in the
Those are some of the findings that
Zhang, a 29-year-old PhD candidate who emigrated from China in 2002, set out to explain why 21 per cent of American teenagers told researchers "they had physically fought with someone in the last 12 months," compared to just seven per cent of Canadian teenagers.
Comparing data on more than 8,000
Children born to teenage mothers are more likely to be violent -- and three per cent of
Zhang said teenagers who watch more than five hours a day of television tend to be more physically violent. Twenty-six per cent of American teenagers watch more than five hours a day of television, compared with 13 per cent of Canadian teens.
Zhang emphasized that she is just at the beginning of her research.
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