[ferretchucker]

I agree with Gore. Parents play a big part in making sure their kids grow up well. Obviously you could have great parents but because of other things, people at school etc. the child could turn out violent, but it's up to the parents to teach the child good values as much as they can when their minds are young and like sponges. After that, there are many more other factors like I said, but parents should still try their best to make their kids turn out right.

As for games and movies, I don't think it's entirely nonsense. There was one man in england a few years back who killed an elderly couple for no apparent reason, and when in court, he proudly admitted it and said he wanted to be as famous as freddy krueger. Now, that was obviously caused by a film. But, with a mind like that (and he was only about twenty when he did it, and in the newspaper it said he had liked blood and horror from a young age, the parents are partially to blame.

They should have known how impressionable their son was and made sure he was taught right and wrong and maybe laid him off the horror movies. I know it's weird reading me talk about this because of my age, but I know that even though I love horror movies, I can understand that all they are are movies and the things that happen in them are best left in the movies.

There are plenty of factors and definetely, movies and some games (manhunt etc.) which can glamourise violence, but it's up to the parents to let the child know right and wrong and to know when their child is maybe too into these games and films.