And this:
parents cannot monitor their children 24 hours a day
Is a mere excuse, used by parents. If parents cannot take care of their kids then why should they even have them? Accepting the responsibilities of a parent is not something to be taken lightly and if one parent or another cannot do as Shield of Rohan states-
Teach them to respect rules and regulations and the basic reasoning behind such rules, as well as key virtues from a young age
In addition to monitoring them, taking care of their well being, "protecting them" as needed and etc. then a couple should not be parents. I won't even get into the high divorce rates of America and faults of a single parent raising a child as I think people can agree that in
general a single father or mother cannot raise a child as well as a couple.
why is it that the US alone has so much senseless violence? Why doesn't every coutry?
You don't think that there is high rates of violence, robbery, corruption, prostitution and all that other jolly vice in other countries? Is the US the #1 country for crime? I doubt that...
Regardless the one thing about this is there is never a single reason why, it's about figuring out what has contributed to such violence. Since if we can get ride of many elements that contribute to a violent personality we may be able to prevent disasters.
Getting rid of videogames will not stop violence. In fact I don't even think that it will reduce it. The statistic noted by Jimayo proves that all other statistics, polls, etc. implying the opposite are false and even if Jimayo's statistic does not set in stone the ideal that videogames reduce violence, it also shows that videogames probably do not increase it substantially as well. Indeed I feel that the violence of a person depends on how they are naturally/how they were nurtured rather than their exposure to videogame stimuli. Expose an abused child, who bullies kids at school to videogames, and a nurtured+sheltered child who was brought up "right" and watch the results. I have a strong feeling that in most every case the bully is the one that becomes/is violent because he, by nature is this way.
It isn't impossible.
Correct!
So Slick if parents wheren't lazy you're saying we wouldn't see violence in kids? That in fact everyone would be fine all the time? I seriously don't think so
Nope, but if parents were less lazy or at least more responsible in raising their kids there would be less violence, less corruption and a greater morale society overall. Of course this is not the single, determining factor but how parents nurture their children probably has a greater effect on the youth than videogame stimuli.
argue all you want that parents are at fault, but like Iain said it's far to easy to get your hands on extremely violent content.
It's not hard for a responsible parent to take away this content, educate their children and moniter them either.
Now I do admit it'd be a lot better if parents bothered to understand and then read ratings for games, but it doesn't change the fact that if the kid him/herself have the money for a game some places are bound to not care that they're selling a game to a kid. If fact I know of one kid who bought an xbox without his Mom's permission (I know from being at the EB when the Mom was screaming about the fact she couldn't get cash back and only store credit....)
Xbox is not rated mature...it's not a drug, nor is it deemed a vice, hazard or lude "toy."
A parent that cannot be responsible enough or "busy" enough to moniter their children should not have offspring to begin with. Similarly a parent who cannot take the time to read the back of a game box to see the rating, does not have anywhere near the time to raise a child.