You can say all you want that video games cause violence in children, but it is up to the parents to know their children and determine if for their child that is a illegitimate reality. I highly doubt that the numbers are that high.

The same people bitching about video games are the people blaming the music industry for people like Eminem, and causing a scene because Kathy Griffith didn't want to thank Jesus for her flipping award. These are forms of entertainment. If you don't like them, don't buy them. If you are just going to complain, why don't you try playing one. Of course, good upbringing should be directly reflecting your child's behavior...but I suppose by admitting that, you would have to own up to the fact that you failed as a parent. Can't have that. Why don't you go sue McDonald's for making you fat?

I have a son that played video games that were on the more violent side and he is far from being mean or violent. Matter of fact, he hates hurting anything. .

Despite urban myths about teenagers going on psychotic violence-sprees and blaming Grand Theft Auto, the causation of youth violence has very different roots, most often found in the home and social environment, not the game disc. Studies indicate that teenagers who play violent games are no more or less likely to engage in violent behavior than teens who play less/non-violent games, or no games at all. Ergo, the causation of violence is rooted elsewhere. Besides, no communicative medium has ever made anyone do anything, and video games are verifiably far less conditioning in terms of behavioral reference modeling than violent television programs that depict -real- people engaging in --->. ---> realistically simulated violence. For one, video games aren't altogether very believable; no mentally stable teen believes that they could get away with the crap done in Grand Theft Auto, for example. Neither are such mentally sound teens even likely to believe that they could get away with what they see in action movies. Let's face facts; kids might be impressionable, but they're not -that- stupidly gullible. Fun fact is, youth violence has been on the decline per-capita in the USA for several years, yet the media has been hyping it up like the opposite is true. Be sure to check your facts, I say; the media sure doesn't.

Saying that video games turn children violent is just another way of not taking responsibility for you own actions, both the parent's and the children's. Many other things that the public is exposed to contain violence. .

video games are a form of escapism. They take you to a different reality and sometimes people go crazy and do something stupid and instantly parents and other close minded people attack video games.