Violent video games have been a scapegoat used by parents to explain away adolescent violence since the early 90’s. However, in recent studies, this popular opinion has begun to break down.<\/p>\n
In a recent study by Havard Medical School in 2010 a poll was collected to track video game usage. A staggering 97% of teenage subjects said they played video games. However, 75% of those said they preferred puzzle games with little to no violence, while 66% played violent video games. And while the most vocal parents generally preach the need to “protect” their children from the violent influence of video games, 62% of these teens’ parents said the content does not affect their child one way or the other. The article goes on to explain that any studies that claim a correlation between violence in video games and real world violence is unfounded and based in simple observation rather than cause and effect.<\/p>\n
This article supported my own theory from my own research already; if video games truly caused people, primarily adolescents, to be more violent, the billions of people who have purchased this game would have made headlines by now.<\/p>\n