noone WANTS his children to play the game but everyone knows
that a lot of children ARE playing it. you can't watch every step of your kids and you don't want to do that. i don't want to argue with you, but i think my opinion is not that up the pole...
And if your GTA-playing kid goes out and kills someone, for example, and several million other kids play it and behave perfectly fine, I would recommend trying to find out why the kid was so screwed up in the first place that he could be so easily influenced by a simple video game, then taking it out on the industry.
As I've said before, if a video game/movie inspires some one to kill, they already had psychological problems well before that.
When I was a kid, we had an Atari 2600. My parents didn't leave it out, and I got to play for an hour a day, max. They played it more than I did. Parents could do a better job then? What happened, y'all start slacking?
Actually, a lot of parents just let their kids play games like these. My parents set limits as to what I was supposed to be exposed to while I was growing up. They didn't let me have a TV in my room until I was in high school, and they never would have let me buy a game like this.
My friend, on the other hand, had a TV in his room since he was young, and would watch Real Sex on HBO while still in gradeschool.
Nobody said that parenting was supposed to be easy.