Children today are faced with the frightening reality of growing up in a violent society. The violent acts being witnessed in their daily lives are teaching them that violence can be a way of solving their problems. According to Rhodes, “… if we want to reduce it (acts of violence) even further, protecting our children from real violence in their real lives – not the pale shadow of mock violence – is the place to begin. In a study discussed in “Hollow Claims about Fantasy Violence”, it is noted that the correlation between aggressiveness and video games is 0.31. Which would mean that only 10 percent of the violent influence would come from television. There still remains 90 percent of a child’s influences to be accounted for.

Another aspect to consider when making a correlation between video violence and youth crime is that video games do not make guns and other weapons available to children. There needs to be a means to commit a crime. Children are having no difficulty in finding weapons to commit violent acts. Acco

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