Video Games Affecting Youth

The Effects of Video Games on Children Many people claim that violent video games are desensitizing children to violence, and making them more hostile and aggressive in social situations. Many video games nowadays have some sort of violence. These games can range from mild to extremely brutal. When children are exposed to these games, they very well could affect how children think. These games, when exposed to children, will, in fact, make them desensitized to violence, and even become violent themselves.

Many people and researchers worry that the violent video games have negative effects on teenagers and children, and these people and researchers believe that these violent video games are the cause of youth violence. In violent video games, children and teenagers submit themselves to the following material: bullying, murdering, abusing, and much more. Violent video games with such material teach the children and teenagers negative morals and negative ways of thinking. In these violent video games, children and teenagers perform violent and aggressive acts throughout the game repetitively. Sadly, children and teenagers learn from mimicking and repetition, and they tend to obscure truth and fiction from one another.

Violent video games can change children’s actions. In the article entitled “Can Playing Video Games be Harmful to Your Kids “ Manshacter said, “According to a 2008 Harns Interactive Poll, 23% of kids admitted the actually felt addicted to playing video games.”(P).After playing video games kids could get addicted of playing these video games. She also says, “He may follow what is called the “game mentally”….your child hears negative comments online between gamers or about the game itself then your child is more likely to change the way he feels”(pg28) Hearing negative things online can affect how they react to verbal offensives. As a result video games affects the way children feel or act after playing. Bad Social Life can be caused by Video Games Users become le... ... middle of paper ... ...learly, video games are associated with problems you get after playing for a long period of time.

But little known for some is the fact that the Columbine shooting was what kick started the nationwide controversy over violent video games. Harris, for one, was an avid player of Doom, and some believe that’s what caused him and Klebold to even think of murdering all the people who had, according to Harris’ diaries, simply ‘annoyed’ him. The fallout of this incident was massive, but one of the long-lasting effects has been the worry in people’s minds that there is a connection between video games and violent acts performed by teenagers. Those who do believe that may claim that before the digital age, violent acts—at least those performed by teenagers—were few and far between. (This is an obvious rumor, not a fact.)

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The violence in video games makes children and young teens aggressive and they become desensitized to violence. Games that depict killing, dismembering, maiming, or sexually assaulting a human being are too explicit for these young minds and they should not be exposed to that. A lot of school shootings caused by teens and most of them were because of them playing violent video games and learning from them. There are many statistics and studies that video games really are. Behaviors and attitudes have also changed in the ones who play certain violent video games.

Violent Video Games Did you know that video games aren’t just fun and games anymore? It may be influencing your child to hurt others. Video games are very enjoyable, but they are also very dangerous and unhealthy for children. More than 90% of children and adolescents play video games, the majority of those games contain violent content. However, this does not mean all types of video games are bad and that children will only develop bad habits from playing the video games.

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The problem is as children get older they are influenced by the video games they play and most of the video games in today’s society are violent and gory. Video games affect children and cause them to take on violent tendencies. These violent tendencies may be as subtle as inappropriate language or as obvious as getting into fights with others. Almost all video games contain violence. Dr. Craig Anderson, a psychologist who studies violence, declares: The rating itself does not tell you whether it is a healthy or unhealthy game.

Many studies have issued that the violence used as entertainment in video games causes younger children to be more aggressive and violent. Violent video games act as a form of violence, but do not cause the violence to occur. Moreover, violent video games cause young children to be associated with a higher visuospatial cognition (visual perception), effects the brain development, along with media violence influencing a child to act violent and have aggressive behavior. Video game violence has become a highly politicized issue for the public due to the rising concerns that there is a high risk in aggression in violent video games. There have been several debates of video game promoting negative effects to the youth.