gaming Why do parents buy their little kids mature video games?

[Hundsi 1]

It's because sadly a lot of parents these days are lazy these days, instead of hiring a babysitter or something they can just buy their kid the latest Call of Duty to keep them occupied.

[Legacy Dash 439]

Sometimes the children might be mature enough to watch it. Maybe not 4 year olds, it isn't very often that you get a mature 4 year old.

 

You don't know how mature an child might be.

 

Although, I'm sort-of in that age range (13) - I do believe that parents are too open to buying their children whatever they want.

[PinkiePieJr 122]

Video games don't usually have an effect on people, no matter the age. A kid has to be royally messed up in the head to play GTA V (great game, by the way) and think, "Wow! I suddenly feel like killing a bunch of people!" and then proceeds to go do it. I have played violent video games for a majority of my life, do I want to go out and slaughter people? Nope. Plus, I mean, come on....violent video games are simply fun to play and enjoy. Parents need to teach their own kids right from wrong (and what's real and fictional) and not let some video game (or any other type of media) do it for them. Stop blaming video games.

 

 

 

It's different in a game because it's completely fictional...no one actually gets hurt in the process. 

Oh. Well than that's very much different. Thank you for clearing that up for me. I'm so glad to know now that murder is perfectly fine as long as nobody actually gets hurt. Knowing that I think I'm going to become a very violent person. I'm gonna go kill everyone, destroy people's lifes, go school shooting, murder parents in front of their kids! While I'm at it, I think I'll rape as many children as I can, burn all the churches I can find. I'm gonna go steal from every store I can. I will bomb a school. I'm gonna torcher families until they die, but make sure it's real slow so they feel a lot of pain before they die. I'm gonna cause pain to as many people as I can! But it's all ok, because it's only fictional. It doesn't mean anything. Thank you for clearing that up for me!

[Lunatic Cake 1,618]

Sadly it's because of two types of parents that children are "allowed" to play this game.

1. Parents buy that game so they won't get annoyed by their kid and prefer sitting it in front of the TV instead of playing with it themselves

2. Parents don't care about what their child is doing, allowing it to do pretty much anything and therefore are going to buy that game because the child keeps asking.

 

Another thing I want to mention is that 18+ games should not be completely be prohibited for underage children, to a certain extent it should be the parents decision whether or not their child is mature enough to play that kind of game. Let's face reality, children at the age of 12+ probably know about the sexual intercourse, as provided in GTA V, I bet most of them even watched their first dirty movies by that time, may it be at a friends house because he wants to seem cool or just in private on the internet. After all it's the parents decision whether to or not to buy a game but they need to understand that they are having a certain responsibility when buying such games.

[NocturnalRainbow 248]

I agree that.  four year-olds DEFIANTLY shouldn't be playing GTA. In fact I think before the age of...ummm... 10, that you really should be allowed to play any M-games,and those games would probably be first person shooters where the only real violence is the blood and killing. I think around 12-13 kids are actually ready to play basically any M-Rated game, they know about sex, they know what drugs are, so no real harm done. And you should always remember that video games don't influence one's real life violence so that's no an issue. 

 

i ALSO CHANGED WHAT I SAID A BIT SO I COULD JUSTIFY MYSELF PLAYING GTA WHEN I WAS 12 XD

[Silver fox 117 49]

I feel that young children shouldn't be allowed to play mature games at all. It would be like how you don't let your kids watch Pulp Fiction. I don't get how people create barriers between different forms of medias, but they do. A parent seems to find it unacceptable for children watching too mature of movies, and yet they turn around and let the kids play GTA. I really don't get it. I was not allowed to play halo until I became like 13 (I still can't play GTA, I wouldn't even if I could though). I used to hate that my mom wouldn't let me play it, but now I understand. M rating means you need to be more strict about it. I think that for the most part M means no children should play, because well that is what the rating means.

 

Ugh I find this topic frustrating, because I grew up around people who there parents didn't give a rats ass about what there kids watch and played (There drug addicts now. Not saying that is because of the games. They are just drug addicts now.)

 

 

 

Also I really don't get why Halo is M rated. It hardly swears and it has like no blood. I dun get it. That is a different topic though.

[Scootaloo Is Best Filly 578]

I believe it's a combination of parents just don't understand what's in it. Sure, there's a "M" but "Mature Content" can actually mean quite a few things. It could also be the parents thinking their kid can handle it. And another thing probably is, let me give you an example. We have all been through this at least once in our lives. Say you're with your parents in a candy store or cookie aisle at a grocery store. You tell your parents , that you want to get a certain cookie or candy and they say "No" and then you begin to cry and fuss, and at some point your mom or dad just caves in and buys it for you because you're making a scene.

 

I can see, that happening the same way with this, the parent caved in to avoid the glances and glares from other people as their kid cries and throws a temper tantrum.

 

Truthfully, here's what I believe, before you even think about buying them a Mature video game or a Rated R movie, You'd better teach them that this is not like in the cartoons. And that they understand the differance, between that and a cartoon. As long as their personality doesn't change, or their not slumping in their school work/social life. As long as they know that all of that is wrong , than it's fine.

 

Video game's do not turn people in to killers. Sure, it doesn't help but many if not all of them have tons of mental problems like Depression, etc.etc.etc. . Video games Mature or not can not give you mental problems.

Edited November 11, 2013 by Scootaloo Is Best Filly

[FlutterBye 1]

I'm a kid and i own about 4-5 M rated games. The only way to really fiqure out if the kid should have it is if he/she is affected by stuff like M-rated games.