Violent Video Games Sociology

In the past few years, video games have steadily been on the rising, steadily increasing popularity ten fold, and they continue to reach higher levels of violent content, to catch kids’ minds and to grab their attention, but are video games worth our time? And does the violence hurt the children from around the world behavior wise? Most people do agree that too much video games is not very good for children, and researchers from around the world that video games full of aggressive content can possibly be linked to a youths’ aggressive behavior and possibly crime among youths.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, otherwise known as the AAP, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, AACAP, state that exposure to violent video games or media could possibly play a part in real life violent behavior and can possibly harm children in other ways, there have actually been more researchers that actually argue this claim that the AAP and the AACAP are stating. These new researchers think that most youths actually are not affected by violent video games, but one thing that these researchers agree on, is that parents should try to limit the possible effects of these violent video games on children. …show more content…
Both of these organizations express that these video games that contain a certain behavior or violence content and other types of media can possibly, over time, lead to poor school performance, cause nightmares, and can also lead to aggressive behavior and bullying, because both of these organizations agree that it can numb youths emotionally, this can also possibly happen on violent television shows as well, being that it can be