The Influence Of Video Games On Children And Teenagers

Parents as well as teachers and other adults must take responsibility for watching and

controlling what sort of video games their children and teenagers are playing. Parents need to be more

involved when it comes to what sort of content their children are being exposed to. Parents should

understand what games their children are playing. Since the audience that is being discussed is for

the most part under the age of eighteen they cannot legally purchase many of the violent video games

on the market for a store they must go through a person over eighteen usually their parents. There are

many ratings boards that were created online to help parents understand what a certain game is about

what age they suggest the player should be and

The first

question asked “Do you play any video games?” the younger age group almost everyone said yes

including young women. The second age group was different two men said yes out of 15 in total.

On the second question “Do you think video games make the player angry?” one out of thirty said

yes and everyone else disagreed. This was the case for most of the questions the people surveyed did

not agree that video games were dangerous nor did they what to learn more about the topic. However

question four “Do you think social, political and problems at home generate more anger and violence

than playing video games?” 88% of people said yes.

video games have been a point of interest since they first appeared over four decades ago

however now they have gotten more attention for unwanted reasons. Video games have become a large

part of popular culture and most children and teenagers play video games even if they do not own a

console to play games on at home chances are most of their friends will have one. Violence is not good

for anyone in any form however people have managed to deal with the violence found in television