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If your child chooses to play violent video games then that might be a sign that they have some anger management issues that they should work through before it is too late. However if your child is healthy and well balanced then I do not think any movie or video game will do much to change that.

I do think that video games (TV, computers, Internet, phones etc.) take away from needed time for physical activity. I think the lack of physical activity has more to do with pent up hostility than the actually content of the game.

I believe that children are very rarely every helped with censorship and banning.

Proper research and educating parents is nearly always helpful. The link Hobbes provided said that the researchers did not want to expose the test subjects to violent video games for prolonged amounts of time. That makes any results they receive meaningless. They had reached their conclusion before they began the research. A big no-no in the scientific world.

I am not a parent and do not plan on ever becoming one. I think that would make my opinion count a little less.

Germany has banned violent video games for years.

BPjS/BPjM = German Bundespr?fstelle f?r jugendgef?hrdende Schriften/Medien = Federal Examination Office for Youth-Endangering Publications/Media.

It would be a good place to look for case studies and comparisons to see if banning games makes a difference.

I live in Czech Republic and I grew up in America. Both place allow children to purchase the same types of video games. America has higher reported % of child violence. Perhaps it is not the video games that are causing it.