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This 7 page paper considers the issue of a family culture of violence. Children are often exposed to a wide variety of experiences that can be viewed as violent. Studies since the 1990s suggest that there is an increasing amount of violence in the home, with a growing number of children being raised in families where domestic violence is common. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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home, with a growing number of children being raised in families where domestic violence is common (Herzberger, 1996). Mazza and Reynolds (1999) argue that violence and exposure to violence
are substantial concerns for parents and educators, and the present data from the Center for Disease Control and others that underscore the connection between violence and urban life. "Data
gathered by the Center for Disease Control (1995) and others (Fingerhut, Ingram, & Feldman, 1992; Richters & Martinez, 1993; Schubiner, Scott, & Tzelepis, 1993) suggest that violence and exposure to
violence are relatively common experiences in children and adolescents. Gladstein, Rusonis, and Heald (1992) reported that only 12% of inner-city adolescents indicated that they had not been exposed to violence"
(Mazza and Reynolds, 1999). As a result of this apparent exposure to violence in youth, there is a need to examine the detrimental outcomes of this exposure for the
youth culture and the implication over time. Bohnert, Crnic and Lims (2003) article Emotional Competence and Aggressive Behavior in School-Age Children relates
the overall issue and existing studies of the connection between the role that aggression and violence play in childhood development and youth culture, especially in light of increasing aggressive behaviors
in the educational setting. The introduction outlines the problem, existing research and the underlying purpose of the study, to assess the impacts of aggressive behaviors. The problem
statement in this study is related at length through an outline of existing studies and the development of terms that include emotional appraisal, emotion expression, and emotion understanding, the three
separate indicators of emotional competence. The researchers, then, outline the purpose of the study as: "to explore individual differences among school-age children in emotion appraisal, expression, understanding (i.e.,
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