I may be in the minority with my opinon.

I think the violence has more to do with parents ALLOWING their children (read 2-8 year olds) to kick, hit, slap people, including the parents! What does that teach them? It teaches them that violence is expected, gets you what you want, or has no consequences.

You can bet if I did any of that to my mom as a kid there would have been an immediate reprocussion of the painful rear end type. It simply was not tolerated when I grew up by either my mom, or anyone else I encountered.

Just my $.02 worth.