Study after study has shown that viewing media violence encourages aggression, desensitization, and pessimism in children. Most parents know that such violence is harmful to their children, but how harmful? And what can they do to help? Since children's exposure to violence in the media is not likely to end anytime soon, Viewing Violence offers parents clear answers and solutions to the problems created by media violence. Psychologist and mother Madeline...

Collects five decades of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, covering topics including war, human nature, faith, communism, and Polish culture.