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In last week’s ripped from the headlines episode of Law and Order: SVU, a couple gets so wrapped up in a ridiculously fake video game that they forget who their daughter is. “This is the kingdom of Galagar!”
Grand Theft Auto, often the whipping-boy for the anti-violent video games movement, is being used by a program in Merseyside, England to help stop children becoming desensitised to violence. Welcome to Bizarro world.
A survey conducted by The Harrison Group and Activision Publishing has found that a large percentage of parents with gaming children are familiar with the ESRB ratings system.
One parent has put Modern Warfare to educational use for their four-year-old. Another tktktk. These are the things the parents among you told us.
I just discovered a hullabaloo over at the Orange County Register’s Mum Blog that began when blogger/mum Marla Jo Fisher explained why she keeps her household gaming free.
In Chicago last month, a kid called 911 when the ‘rents took away his Xbox 360. Saturday in a Boston suburb a mum dialled the law when her son wouldn’t stop playing. Oh yeah, Grand Theft Auto’s involved here, too.
