Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec
Parental responsibility and paying attention to whatever your kids are doing sound good, you'll get no argument there from me or any sane person.
Correct - parents are responsible for their children until the time they leave the house.

Still, kids are creative in hiding stuff from their parents. And while not all parents are doing what they should to prevent their kids from viewing violence or sexual material, does that mean the govment can sit idly by and wash her hands in innocense?
You should seen the look on my teenage son when we did the first room search for things he should not have. Rather upset with us - but mostly because we found things he did not want found.

Best thing is to have a trust relationship with your kids, followed up with a demonstration of responsiblity and caring. Not an abuse of their privacy, but a monitoring of their activities. The government's involvment with child rearing should only occur once the parent demonstrates that they are unable to maintain control of their household.

Until then I prefer the government to only be able to set minimum standards - ie yes indeed its wrong to expose children to sexual explicit material.

There are already age ratings for video games. I say enforce them by making it punishable for a salesman to knowingly sell stuff (wether it be porn, or violent videogames) to people who are not old enough.
If parents decide that their kid is old and wise enough to handle a particular game (I recognise that age rating in itself is imperfect), they can buy it for their kids should they ask for it. That way, the responsibility still lies with the parents.
I agree completely

Banning certain games alltogether or censuring explicit language is just stupid.
It also actually drives up the demand for the games.