There are games that literally replicate and give people the ability to score points for doing the very same thing that these students are doing inside schools, where you get extra points for finishing someone off who’s lying there begins for their life.” ( 6) There are several ideas that say young people benefit from these violent video games “Surprisingly, playing video games can help our physical, mental, and emotional health.” It helps them to improve hand eye coordination and thinking ability. These benefits are not worth the risk of being influenced by violent video games. (7) All in all the research and officials say that violent video games affect how children, teenagers and young adults act. Evidence shows that several of the school shootings were done by young people that played violent video games. Some of these were The Columbine shooters, Sandy Hook school shooting and the Virginia Tech shooting.
With this in mind, violent video games do not make kids more aggressive. Lawmakers have tried to help control the distribution of violent video games to unintended audiences. Among children between the ages 12 and 17 in the United States, “97% of them play video games” (Scutti). Vicious video games have been blamed for school shootings, increases in bullying, violence towards women, desensitizing players to violence, rewards for simulating violence, and teaching children that violence is acceptable (Procon.org). On the contrary, the author of Procon.org reports that The Entertainment Software Rating Board established
Does Violence in Video Games Affect Children? I personally hate demons. They’re evil, they’re ugly, and they probably smell horrible. So of course, killing them is a good thing, because you’re liberating the world from their influence. And in videogames, you get to kill bad creatures.
One of the leading effects of video games is behavior problems. This is one of the worst problems that children are having now. Video games can affect our behavior in many ways but these violent video games are making the gamers behavior really bad. Violent video games are all about killing, shooting guns, and other types Violence. But playing video games is an active thing because people can learn better when they are actively involved in something.
There are immense studies conducted by experts regarding violent video games, which further prove their negative impact on children. In these games, children are in control of violence and experience it in their own eyes like shooting, killing, kicking and stabbing. Thus, this active
Video Games Aren’t as Bad as People Think; Role-Playing Video Games Promote Development of the Brain They make you violent and aggressive. You’ll become anti-social. Your eyes will weaken until they can barely function. These are the stereotypes often associated with playing video games. Parents and other adults think that games like Call Of Duty and Assassin’s Creed will change the behaviour of the children in a negative.
• The children have become violent and aggressive and are fighting with each other for no reason because that is what they learned from the video games. • Parents say that video games eats their children’s brains, they could have been more energetic and do more creative activities like sports or music but there brain has been damaged by the video games. With these complains, most parents are against video games and they hate it when their children is playing. What parents do not know is video games can actually be good for their children. If they knew about these, they would certainly allow them to play without any objection.
Shamar McCollough Mrs. Wurst English 4 period 2 Nov 18 2016 Violent Video Games Causes Treacherous Behavior in Kids Kids these days are now to seem to be taking video games into the matter of their own hands. They are wanting to be like some of the violent characters in those video games. Like shoot a gun or rob someone or something. They just want to have the story of how you grow up as a wanted criminal, which is not tolerated by our country today. These video games are teaching our kids bad habits and that’s not good.
Parents should never permit their kids to play video games because video games cause more aggression, real-life violent behavior, and will likely result to children having difficulty distinguishing reality from fantasy. The first reason why parents shouldn’t let their kids play video games is that playing video games causes more aggression. Researchers proved that there was a change in behaviors of 60% of middle school boys and 40% of middle school girls who played at least one Mature-rated or M-rated game. These middle school students hit or beat up someone unlike 29% of boys and 14% of girls who did not play M-rated games. These behaviors also involved in bullying and fighting.
Playing Violent Videogames Has Negative Effects on the Behavior of Young Adolescents Bella van Arendonk Enlish and Popular Science Brigitte van Pelt - Hinkle Avans University of Applied Sciences Playing Violent Videogames Has Negative Effects on the Behavior of Young Adolescents. Everyone has memories of when they were young and having fun. Some children liked to play outside all day, others were more interested in playing videogames. Just imagine you would be able to play your favorite videogame in real life. Wouldn’t that be amazing?