Child and violence on television: Parents opinions about tv violence? influence on aggressive behaviors who have 5 years old child

This research?s aim is to investigate children?s aggressive behaviors which are affected from violence scenes on television and parents? ideas.This research?s study group includes 15 willing parents from different SES (according to maternal education and parental income) in central Bursa who are chosen with convenience sampling method which is a nonprobability method.Qualitative research method was used in this study and the data was collected with semi-structured interview form. Interview records were encoded and analyzed with qualitatively.The findings show that most-preferred television programs by the children are cartoons and the programs which prepared for kids are not suitable for them. Mothers express that they had watched and checked the programs for their children before them; fathers express that they don?t care the programs which their children watched. The parents think that kids are affected from the violence scenes on television and kids have behavior which is affected from the violence scenes on television. The boys are more affected from television. In the case of the children try to solve problems with friends by violence. The parents expressed they need an explanation when their children try to solve problems with friends by violence and parents specified that need to be broadcasted better programs instead of violence scenes on TV and these programs must be controlled by experts.Key words: Television, violence, aggression, children and parent opinions.