Opinion 

Top 10 Reasons Video Games Cause Violence In Children

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For some time parents worldwide have been asking the questions. Should we keep children away from violent video games? Is it bad for 12 year olds to play Grand Theft Auto? Is my 6 year old picking up bad habits from Assassin’s Creed? To help, we’ve compiled the top ten reasons that video games cause violence in young children.

  1. Video
  2. Games
  3. Do
  4. Not
  5. Cause
  6. Violence
  7. They
  8. Are
  9. Age
  10. Restricted

Seriously though, if you are worried about video games causing violence in young children, the simple answer is “don’t supply games which are not suitable for them”. For over 25 years, each video game seeing a retail or console release has been provided with an age rating. This makes it not only difficult, but completely illegal for young children to obtain violent games, without the assistance of an adult over that age.

So really, just don’t buy them. Take some responsibility, and realise that video games aren’t the problem, it’s you. If you’d like some assistance in learning about the content of games, each Pixel Bandits’ game review contains a run down of worrying content, and any halfway decent gamer will be happy to help just ask.

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