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In order to appreciate the value of such attempts, a brief
look at the corporal punishment of children at school and
compared to couple of decades ago will suffice us.
Women have been striving and still strive to elevate
their social and family status by various means. The huge
increase in the number of women who enjoy having
academic education cannot be regarded as not having
influenced by media. A very important function of media
is depicting a picture of women who have equal social
status and perform similar social functions to men.
In sum, media are effective tools in controlling and spread of
family violence. The general orientation of media is dependent
on the policies and purposes that they aims to pursue.

5. Media, family and social misconducts
From the viewpoint of many scholars, social misconducts
are the direct result of family problems. In their
definitions of family problems, scholars point to various
issue that can be summarized as emotional abandonment
of children by parents, lack of emotional support and
failure to have emotional bonds with children. 1
Some scholars point to lack of family solidarity, lack
2
of control over children and remarrying of parent as the
main causes of social misconduct and family problems. 3
On the other hand, news from radio and other media
display a specific picture of crimes and are very
influential in forming institutions such as police. Media
play a substantial role in forming public opinion about
crimes and social misconducts.

1. Gorman, 1998, p. 319.
2. Weist, 1998, p. 32.
3. Pagani, 1998, p. 489.