[124] Both parents and children identified the levels of family and community violence as leading to an acceptance of violence as normal, describing how young children are initially scared after
seeing violent behaviour but as they grow older «a normal pattern was for them to either ignore it, or to rush out to watch, discuss and even join in».
Not exact matches
When children
see violence early in their life they may come to accept that
violent behaviour is normal.
Of course, we're unlikely to
see these exact
behaviours in a modern society but the instinct to become more
violent in the pursuit of females when they're rare still exists men.
Some children may perhaps
see violence framed in a positive way, and as result, feel as if they too can use
violent and aggressive
behaviour towards other children and even adults.