Parents 'ignore game age ratings'

Jim Hall writes "With all the fervor recently over the 'Hot Coffee' mod and the upcoming 'Bully' game, I found it interesting that no press time seems to have been given to this little gem from the BBC: Parents 'ignore game age ratings'. I think most of us agree that the games are already rated appropriate to their audience - GTA:SA was previously rated "M" (17 and up) in the US, before public outcry forced the ESRB to move it to "AO" (18 and up). However, as this article points out, parents are more concerned about children spending too many hours playing games, rather than about what type of title they were playing."

Comments

Re:We knew this

[HUADPE]

Any parent who would buy something called Grand Theft Auto for an 8 year old, even with no rating at all, needs to pay alot more attention to what their child is doing and watching.

Re:Some Good Ideas

[PunkOfLinux]

Hillary Clinton is a flaming example of hypocrisy. She always talks about how 'children have access to pornography in video games' and how video games are leading to the objectification of women, and then goes and says 'women should be given unrestricted access to a dangerous form of birth control'. That, to me, raises the flag of hypocrisy.