Comment Re:Will someone please think of the parents? (Score 1) 161
Well, parents can let their kids control their own money without fear of them spending it all on booze, cigarettes and GTA: San Andreas.
I personally don't think that the purchasing restriction does a great deal of good. I was volunteering at an elementary school earlier this week when they had a current events lesson about the issue of restricting video game purchases. The teacher asked how many of the students had played San Andreas. Nearly all of the hands shot up. She asked how many of them actually owned the game. Hands started to go down. When asked how many of their parents knew that they had played the game, only a couple of hands remained raised. It only takes one parent to buy the game for an entire neighborhood to be exposed. Parents still have to be parents. They have to pay attention to who their kids are playing with and what they're doing. This doesn't absolve parents of the responsibilities of parenting.
I personally don't think that the purchasing restriction does a great deal of good. I was volunteering at an elementary school earlier this week when they had a current events lesson about the issue of restricting video game purchases. The teacher asked how many of the students had played San Andreas. Nearly all of the hands shot up. She asked how many of them actually owned the game. Hands started to go down. When asked how many of their parents knew that they had played the game, only a couple of hands remained raised. It only takes one parent to buy the game for an entire neighborhood to be exposed. Parents still have to be parents. They have to pay attention to who their kids are playing with and what they're doing. This doesn't absolve parents of the responsibilities of parenting.
