UPDATE December 2014
Read the latest article on this subject here:
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/12/how-violent-and-depraved-video-games.html
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December 2013:
By Tanith Carey - Daily Mail
Chilling truth about the video games your children got for Christmas: How titles like Pay Day 2, Grand Theft Auto and Mortal Kombat corrupt children as young as five
Scenes include women tied to train tracks and a man's kneecaps drilled
One five-year-old was bought Grand Theft Auto to bond with his father
Another child spent two days in his bedroom playing 11-plus reward game
Study found violent games can make 12 to 14 year olds more aggressive
13-year-old boy in Glasgow slashed a rival's throat before quoting a game
A generation ago, entertainment during the Christmas period revolved around families playing board games before sitting down to watch the Morecambe And Wise Christmas Show and a Bond film.
But this year, the launch of two super-powerful games consoles — the Sony PS4 and Microsoft Xbox One — meant that, more than ever, video games like these were among the most popular presents received.
And despite such stomach-churning content and 18 ratings, the uncomfortable truth is that in hundreds of thousands of homes the person ripping the parcel open was a child.
But would most parents buy these games if they knew the depravity of their content?
It seems many do not realise the levels of sex and violence portrayed in such games, and the damage they can do to the under-developed minds of children.
This week I reviewed some of these games — and the hours I spent doing so were among the most horrible and eye-opening of my life.
Of course I’d heard they were unpleasant. But I was not prepared for the extreme realism — the latest high-definition games played on the new consoles are almost impossible to tell apart from film — or the fact that players take such an active role in murdering, maiming and torturing others.
As an adult, I found the gratuitousness and lingering attention to every detail of death disturbing. As a mother and a parenting author, I found imagining this through the eyes of a child terrifying.
Previous generations still had the blessing of enjoying their childhood.
These days aside from mind-warping entertaining, there is also the problem with the sexualisation of small children through explicit "sex education" in schools, which erases all concepts of right and wrong by telling children that anything goes as long as they avoid pregnancy and STDs. Schools are denigrating traditional values and imposing the educators' own moral relativism.
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