Video games are incredibly popular, and they are targeted at younger people, even children, as they are the ones who have the free time to play on them.
Parents can try as much as they want to prevent children from wanting to play video games, but unfortunately they will always be there in the homes of their friends and on the television, taunting them more and more with a wide range of games to play.
Parents should buy their children a games console, but that doesn't mean they need to give in and buy them every game they want, as there are many filled with violent content which is completely inappropriate for children to view.
Parents can in no way plead ignorance to the violence in video games, as they will need to buy them if they have any kind of violence in them.
There are warnings plastered all over the cases of games, giving parents the opportunity to see what their child will be playing and whether they are happy for them to do so.
A child could say they want a game, but it might be much to mature for them, and in that case a parent should say they won't buy it and that their child will have to wait until they're older to play it.
There are some games which clearly have no violence in but need to have the warning on the case due to one small part of it.
In cases such as these the game might be fine for a child to play, but parents still won't buy it due to the warnings.
Online reviews of video games can help parents in deciding whether a game is appropriate or not for their children, as many online publications will describe the brutality of any violence.
Taking a measure such as this will help parents realise what certain video games are about, and see that maybe the warnings on game cases aren't as useful as they thought.
Every game can be made to look like it has violence in, but some parents may not mind it if their children are playing a game aimed directly at their age group, with violence adjusted to light levels they can understand isn't real.
Many parents allow their children to watch films with age ratings that are well-above their age, and they don't think that this may influence any kind of violence whatsoever.
Often films are more violent than video games, as films show real life violence, whereas in video games it's clear that every character is not real.
Parents need to monitor the ratings of every video game their children play, or there's no way they can complain about their children playing violent ones, as they've not taken the time to see what might be in a game their child wants to play.