The Impact of Movies and Video Games

THE IMPACT OF MOVIES AND VIDEO

GAMES

Do movies and video games have an impact on our children versus the impact that these movies have on us when we were younger

In the article entitled The Impact of Video Games on Children , It says that the most widely used "positive " impact video games are said to have on children is that they may improve a player 's manual dexterity and computer literacy . Ever-improving technology also provides players with better graphics that give a more "realistic " virtual playing experience . This quality makes

the video game industry a powerful force in many adolescent lives . However , numerous studies show that video games , especially ones with violent content , adversely affect a teen 's aggressive behavior . Part of the increase in aggressive behavior is linked to the amount of time children are allowed to play video games In one study by Walsh (2000 , a majority of teens admitted that their parents do not impose a time limit on the number of hours they are allowed to play video games

The study also showed that most parents are unaware of the content or the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB ) rating (see below ) of the video games their children play

In another study conducted by Gentile , Lynch , Linder Walsh (2004 ,

.6 "adolescent girls played video games for an average of 5 hours a week whereas boys averaged 13 hours a week (Palo Alto Medical Foundation 2007

What the article above is trying to point out is that children who are spending too much hours playing violent type of video games are likely to manifest certain aggressive and violent behavior . The reason for this is the failure of parents to regulate the number of hours that kids are spending on the game

Though the study also shows the positive impact that children may get from this , like for instance , the development of their dexterity skill and by becoming themselves literate in regard to the different functions and uses of computer , however , it should be noted that we cannot sidelined the sensitivity of children to things that are not appropriate for them . The popularity of video games lead to the point where no matter what kind of game is that as long as it can accommodate the fulfillment of satisfaction of anybody , go on , no matter what the outcome may be . What added to the problem is that most video games available nowadays are not only portraying violence and aggression it also depicted graphics , which are too sexually explicit

This trend really causes a lot of headaches not only for parents who do not want their children to have any ideas with regard to this things but also to authorities whose function is to safeguard the well being of children and their likes . If this problem , will not be given proper resolution , then we will not be surprised why delinquencies and misbehaviors among youths will increase in a astronomical level . The negative impacts of this issue are seemingly...