Can Someone Explain How Video Games Are Worse For Kids Than Plai...

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 07/06/2009 - 15:45

For years, video games have been a convenient bogeyman/scapegoat for politicians to use in complaining about the sort of thing "kids these days" do on a daily basis.

In the past, it's been other things -- from TV to music to comic books. But, these days, video games pop up an awful lot.

So I guess it should come as no surprise at all that a recent study in Canada found that parents put much greater limits on how much...

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