playing sports is way better than sitting at home and playing video games

I would just like to point out a few facts about what you just stated. 1) would be that you said that violent video games are not the causes of violent behavior.(paragraph 1) 2) you talk about the parental figure that the kids would have. (paragraph 2) 3) The physica fitness of the person.(paragraph 3) 4) Crime rate since video games have ben out.(paragraph 4). In recent research that has ben done on the effects of a teenager and violent vidoe games are that they can definetly change a person. Some of the studies that have ben done are that an average boy will play around 13 hours or more a week on video games. Also there is more than a 65% chance that the video game or games that the person would be playing is a violent video game that has to do with killing people. Studies have show that a teenage male or even a boy around the ages of 8,9,10,.... have had these effects. They tend to be more agressive. They are more prone to have issuse with there teachers. May engage in fights at school with there peers. They also will see a decline in grades at there school. Finally they will start to disobey the law. As you can see the chance of a boy playing violent video games alot can make them be a bad person. I would also like to state that there has ben a video game made on one of the most gory movies ever made. That game is saw. http://www.pamf.org... http://www.askmen.com... xbox360.ign.com/objects/142/14231742.html You also talked about the parental figure that one would have. I certinly hope you know that not all kid or teenagers are going to have a good set a parents. some parents could care less about what their childeren watch or even play(like video games). I am also not just talking about a bunch of 8 and 9 year olds. No I am talking about the young teenagers that their parents(even if their parents are good parents) are thinking to themselves that their son or even daughter is old enough that they could play whatever. But I am not just trying to blame the parents either. Its like a 25% 75% thing. Its not all the parents fault and its not all the childs fault either. Some parents might not even know what the ratings on the game oven mean. http://www.badparenting.net... http://www.esrb.org... Now the physical fitness can not only have to do with stress, and family. it has to do with alot other things like mabey actually doing things that are healthy for you. going out and doing activities out side. I know that not all people can do that but kids certinly can. they have gym at school but that shouldnt be the only exercise they get every day. you also stated that it has to do with jobs. im not talking about adults. Im talking about kids of the ages 8 to 18. I know that when a kid turns 15 they can start looking for a job but it shouldnt be that hard. All i am trying to say is that a person can choose to be over weight. they can either choose to sit down and eat a ton of food and do nothing but play video games and watch tv or they can want to be healthy and go out and do something physically fit. There ae lots of thing that a person can do outside that can be very fun. http://www.exercisetv.tv... http://dnr.wi.gov... http://www.healthpartners.com... www.scheelssports.com/ Since the video game industry has evolved from pac man and things like that there has ben a 17% increase in crime rate. people are getting mor and more agressive due mostly video games. there has ben from school shootings to even a young boy year old stealing a car. Im pretty sure that in grand theft auto you can high jack cars. I am not saying that a young boy would be playing thosekind of games, but he could have ben watching one of his older siblings playing the game. He was fairley young and he was already stealing cars. how do you think that looks about the youth. And speaking of the youth, recent studies have show the crime rate in High schools and middle schools and lets not forget college have gone up significly in the last 50 years http://www.en.wikipedia.org... http://www.uk.answers.yahoo.com...... - United Kingdom http://www.crimeinamerica.net... http://www.forum.dvdtalk.com... http://www.blurtit.com...