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Best Way To Get Around Kid Buying Ban On Video Games? Ask Mom
from the very-easy dept
This probably won't come as a huge surprise to a lot of parents out there (and, especially not to kids), but it seems that the ongoing efforts around the globe to ban kids from buying certain video games can be defeated by one simple method: bugging mom. Kids in New Zealand have admitted to playing a bunch of these "banned" video games and one-third of them said their parents bought those games for them. Of course, the study (which was done by a New Zealand government organization) has pissed off the nation's Chief Censor (now there's a title) who seems positively livid that parents believe they can make better choices for how to raise their own children than the all-knowing, all powerful government. And, because having convicted criminals as parents must be a better way of being raised than playing some random game, he seems to be threatening to arrest those parents, by making it clear that buying such games for your kids is illegal.
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Arresting parents for bad parenting?
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Bad parenting?
It seems wholly retardiculous for the Government to assume that they are better parents. Perhaps a reason we have such "bad" parents today is due, in part, to retardiculous government policies.
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Re: Bad parenting?
I live a fairly social life, im in supports, im in college, ive never took a gun to school and want to hurt kids, ive never had thoughts of suicide, and ive never wanted to blow things up. Where were my parents? Around. They knew the games I played and sometimes they didnt but parents told me whats right and whats wrong. I didnt need my mom to approve of the games i played because i knew killing in real life is different then in games.
Governments cannot control such issues and its not their place. Its parents.
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