SUMMARIZING: The Influence of TV to Family Life
TEXT:
Home and family life have changed in important ways since the advent of the television. The peer group has become television-oriented and much of the time children spend together is occupied by television viewing. Culture generally has been transformed by television. Therefore, it is improper to assign to television the subsidiary role its many apologists (too often members of the television industry) insist it plays. Television is not mere one of a number of important influences upon today’s child. Through the changes it has made in family life, television emerges as the important influence in children’s lives today.
Television’s contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For (while) it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a greater extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.
“Like the sorcerer of old,” writes Urie Brongenbrener, “the television set casts it magic spell, freezing speech and action turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts.” The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces, although there is danger there, as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, the games, the family festivities and arguments through which much of the child’s learning takes and through which his character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people.
Yet, parents have accepted a television dominated family life so completely that they cannot see how the medium is involves in whatever problems that might be having. Even when families make efforts to control television too often its very presence counterbalances the positive features of family life.
SUMMARY:
TV plays a dominant role in children, thus influencing family life. And TV makes menbers separated and deprives activities. Therefore, it could retarded children's character development. TV causes many such disadvantages, which outweigh positive influence of family life.
Home and family life have changed in important ways since the advent of the television. The peer group has become television-oriented and much of the time children spend together is occupied by television viewing. Culture generally has been transformed by television. Therefore, it is improper to assign to television the subsidiary role its many apologists (too often members of the television industry) insist it plays. Television is not mere one of a number of important influences upon today’s child. Through the changes it has made in family life, television emerges as the important influence in children’s lives today.
Television’s contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For (while) it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a greater extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.
“Like the sorcerer of old,” writes Urie Brongenbrener, “the television set casts it magic spell, freezing speech and action turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts.” The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces, although there is danger there, as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, the games, the family festivities and arguments through which much of the child’s learning takes and through which his character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people.
Yet, parents have accepted a television dominated family life so completely that they cannot see how the medium is involves in whatever problems that might be having. Even when families make efforts to control television too often its very presence counterbalances the positive features of family life.
SUMMARY:
TV plays a dominant role in children, thus influencing family life. And TV makes menbers separated and deprives activities. Therefore, it could retarded children's character development. TV causes many such disadvantages, which outweigh positive influence of family life.
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