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The present study
was aimed to examine the impact of television watching on
academic achievement of adolescents with special reference
to their socioeconomic status. The sample for the study was
240 (120 heavy viewers and 120 low viewers) selected
secondary school adolescents of 15 to 17 years of age, which
were randomly selected from high and higher secondary
schools in District Srinagar (J and K) run by the
Government. Blank self constructed TV viewing information
was used for the identification of heavy and low TV viewers.
Academic achievement has been assessed on the basis of
aggregate marks in all the subjects secured by the students
in their two consecutive examinations, conducted by the J&K
State Board of School Education. The statistics applied on
the data comprised percentage, mean, standard deviation (SD)
and ‘t’ test were used for analysis of data. Line graph was
plotted in order to make the results transparent. It was
found that the heavy and low television viewer adolescents
differ significantly in their academic achievement. The mean
difference favors low television viewer adolescents. It
indicates that low TV viewer adolescents exhibit a higher
scholastic achievement than the heavy TV viewer group of
adolescents. On the other hand, heavy and low television
viewer adolescents, on the basis of gender, do not differ
significantly with respect to academic achievement. When we
deal with children, we have two things, either to maintain
the existing and available values or to develop them. Hence,
we can develop mental and physical abilities and also what
enables children to live efficiently, and to complement the
educational role we have to leave some sides without
prejudice. This includes children's innocence which refers
to the negligence of children to recognize sexual feelings
and desires that simmer in the hearts of adults. We can
leave them anonymous until they reach this perception of
their minds. This is the essence of the protection of
violation. In other words, we should not alert children to
this aspect as long as they do not realize it. When we alert
children to sexual feelings and desires, they may seek
sexual insatiability, and hence the child may commit wrong
deeds which oppose religion and social traditions in order
to satisfy his needs. If this happens, the child will harm
his mind and damage his health. There are a lot of regional,
local and international conventions that criminalize sexual
abuse of children. One of these conventions is the
convention of the Rights of the Child which deals with
selling children and using them for prostitution and
pornography. This convention was adopted in May 2000, and
entered into force in January 2002. This convention
activates child's rights to protect him from economic
exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to
be hazardous or detrimental to the child's health or
education. The writers of this protocol expressed great
concern about sex tourism; where it is to encourage the
exploitation of children in prostitution and pornography"
Also it is protocol bans using children from sexual
activities for remuneration or any form of supply." On the
international level, there is a convention which prevents
all forms of child labor and it includes all immediate
procedures to eliminate it in 1999. It defines the child as
a person who is under the age of eighteen years old. There
is a gap between protecting the child from sexual abuse and
the practices that are found in fact. The recent study tries
to identify the causes of child sexual abuse in order to
find a suitable cure which suits our culture.
Key words: Sexual abuse, Islam, Child abuse
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