Do you feel violence in the media effect's your children?

iloveyouxx: I am doing a project, and am taking a survey. How do you feel the violence in media has effected your children?

VinceMoon: First off, and this is the truth, everything starts with our parents. They teach us right and wrong, good and bad, and what is real and what is pretend. As a kid, my parents let me watch rated R movies, but explained why I could not watch certain scenes. The violence was okay because early on, my parents said "This is not real. Those are not real people and they are playing make believe." It worked because when you are a kid and you figure out that what you watch and play are not real, a light goes off. However, with politics running like sewage through the media, a kid cannot help but see people talking bad about one another and convincing everyone that films and video games make kids crazy. It doesn't. It just makes them desensitized to the image. Besides, if a child does something because of the media, then they were stupid. Their mom and dad should have explained things better (and if they didn't want a kid, the guy should have used a condom or the girl should have said no). See? It all starts with the parents.