Children spend in watching 17 hours of T.V. every week. In a study conducted by Namita Unnikrishnan and Shailaja Bajpai, it was found that children spend almost one year out of ten in watching T.V. than on hobbies and other activities.
The research was made in Delhi (Source: The Impact of Advertising on children by Namita Unnikrishnan and Shailaja Bajpai) Children are sitting in front of T.V. for the whole day is merely a passive activity which tends to make kids couch potatos.
In a house where children watch T.V. most of the time, the changes are that they would become T.V. or movie addicts. The interaction between them gets reduced to selection of channels only.
The increasing violence, *** and independent attitude being show on TV creates a distorted image on children. It has increased crime as youth are aping films.
Thus the only disturbing aspect of TV is the gradual degeneration of mental values in the society (films) Today.
