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Modern Media and Changing the Functions of Family /15

It is in this area that we need to point out to the active
and effective role played by media in children upbringing.
Programs created for counselling distraught parents in TV
or radio often give suggestions as to how to eradicate their
lack of control over children. When parents fail to exert
control over their children and see their intentions not
fulfilled, they will normally resort to using violence.
In other words, when some deviations or aberrational
behavior is depicted as leading to success or when an
aberrational agent lands in success, then this deviation
will lose its non-standard quality and in some cases will
not be regarded as one.
The control theory holds that unless people are taught
not to commit misconduct, they will take up antisocial
acts and will commit misconducts throughout their adult
years. Rock states that education in this regard plays a
pivotal role in children behavior and an effective role in
their future behavior.
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Children need this form of education, if families fail to
provide it, wrong behavioral patterns will find their way
into the minds of children.

- The Effect of Media on Couple’s Relationship
It is worth noting that family environment is not restricted
to parents’ attitudes. Parents’ behavior toward each other
and their treatment to each other is an important agent in
upbringing and children will copy that behavior.
Violence in family environment has diverse forms,
mistreatment of children is at one end of this continuum
and harsh and violent attitudes and words of parents will
be the other end of this continuum.

1. Rock, 1996, p.182.