THE RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF NIGERIAN HOME VIDEOS ON VALUES AND YOUTH MORALITY

Abstract

Writers and critical thinkers have extrapolated that immoral behaviours among the youths are 
as a result of the kind of home video they watch. Home video that shows violence can influence 
youths to become aggressive and also urge them to use violence in conflict situation. 
Pornographic films/video is another factor that promotes sexual desire or sexual fantasy in the 
youths. The impact of corrupt video in the area of culture, religion and morality has generated a 
lot of uneasiness. The aim of this study therefore, is to reduce the level of moral decadence 
among the youths and also educate parents on the danger of watching immoral video by the 
youths. This step will help parents to monitor films/video that their children watch in the home. 
This paper adopted descriptive phenomenological method. The paper concluded that viewing 
home video has both positive and negative effects on moral development of youths. The paper 
recommended among others, that government should strengthen and monitor video censorship 
board to ensuring that videos produced are devoid of immoral and violent contents. The church 
should frequently teach the youths the implication or risk associated with immoral and violent 
film/video and youths should not be exposed to violent film/video early in life because it is a 
predicator to exhibition of aggression later in life because of its influences.