In America, when a child is born, for fun they usually have toys to play with and loving siblings to interact with. Around the age of six months, children start watching cartoons and as they get older the watching of cartoons get addicting.

When you think of cartoons, you think of colorful innocent little characters running around, but now in America cartoons have evolved into more violent and inappropriate things.

The marketing is targeted toward the children to cause them to want to view the cartoons on a regular basis, but the subliminal messaging is for the adults. It’s sad to see kids addicted to cartoons because society says that the children who watch too much cartoons end up having mental and emotional problems. They also end up with some brain and eye injuries.

Since a child’s mind is like a sponge, it absorbs everything it sees and hears. With all the violence and bad language in the cartoons, it might result in teenage violence in the future. Studies show that boys are more effected by violent cartoons than girls meaning that when a boy watches a violent cartoon he is more likely to imitate it.

A typical child watches about 30 hours of television each week. Some of the effects may be that children are less interested in school. Now in America the violence isn’t just in the cartoons, it’s also now in movies and video games which is also exposing and influencing extreme violence.