A nurse planning teaching for a parent group concerned with preventing family violence can dis-cuss the fact that exposure to violence in the media:
1. Has no effect on the increase of violence in society
2. Assists individuals to distinguish appropriate behaviors from inappropriate be-haviors
3. Desensitizes people to the violence around them
4. Broadens the viewer's knowledge about world happenings
ANS: 3
Violence in the media has been shown to desensitize people to environmental violence. Desensi-tization to violence results in people being apathetic about the violence going on around them. Option 3 is the only true statement given in the options.
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