UK newspaper reports on new study linking games and TV to violence and mental illness
The Daily Mail is targeting the games industry yet again this morning as the UK newspaper reports on a new study that claims video games, the internet and TV are to blame for “'the lurch to more and more violence which we know can breed violence and increase mental illness”.
The claims come from the Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Report, which was conducted by “a panel of industry experts” including former aid to Tony Blair Lord Layard and English Children’s Commissioner Sir Albert Aynsley-Green.
“There is much evidence that exposure to violent images encourages aggressive behaviour,” the report reads. “On television, violence is frequently shown as part of a normal human life.
“The violence is both physical and psychological, and violent argument appears as a standard response to disagreement. To be sure, there is plenty of violence in Shakespeare and in the cinema. But people used to go to the cinema once a week, whereas our children now watch television for an average of 17 hours a week.”
As well as video games, also accused of causing psychological, moral and emotional damage was celebrity culture, single parents and parent’s “aggressive pursuit of personal success has pushed the needs of children aside”.
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The Daily Mail famously ran a piece in May last year where it asked former TV presenter Anne Diamond to play a number of violent games and access the psychological damage each would inflict on her kids.
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Daily Moan
I am not surprised the Daily Moan are back having a good at games, and tv etc. Most be bored with the recession
I am a great believer that parents most play a greater part in stopping unage kids playing violent games and watching adult TV. A parent myself and a keen gamer there is no way on earth I'd buy let alone let my kids play one of my GTA's, Halo, Bioshock etc.
Retailers (most) are pretty hot on not selling games to kids who are underage, however, there is a percentage of the population that will buy their 10yr old a 'manhunt' or GTA - perhaps we should be targetting parents and fining them!? Unless we do something to these parents, it is always going to happen.
There are also some people who are mentally unstable and games/tv/music/internet will be influence them to act on what they see/hear. Not a great deal we can do about them - it could be your next door neighbour!
So, we need to look at a better way of educating parents and policing those who continually break the lae
Re: Daily Moan
Its every excuse under the sun to stop parents from feeling they are responsible for their childrens behavour. Discipline is a dirty word and parents except no responsibily for what their children are doing, watching or playing. It's easier to make the entertainment industry the scapegoats.
Re: Re: Daily Moan
I agree completely with Tracy on this one, just trying to draw away from the subject that parents cannot (or will not) control the content that there children are receiving. When walking past GAME the other day i saw a lady handing a copy of GTA 4 to a group of kids who looked no older than 14, and i can assure she will be one of the first in line to blame the games industry for not censoring its content properly, even though it clearly states on the box 18, and the store staff have clearly refused the sale to these kids.
The reason children behave like this is because they get away with it, you can no longer punish a child whos been naughty by a smack on the back of the legs, as its now politically incorrect and 'abuse'. This government is soft and has proved its weakness by looking for the easiest target in which to blame and to console those parents who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions and that of there children.
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