The effect if violence on children and teens

In the past 30 years the video game industry has grown from a small community to a major industry and a huge part of most teen’s everyday life. The video game world is a taboo one much like that of the pornographic industry, while no major business will admit that they are as large as they are, they lead the world in technological advancements. The only reason that they are frowned upon is the same reason that they are such a large part of life; they provide people with what they otherwise couldn’t have.
Too often now is the video game is the video game industry blamed for violence in children. I have to say that the increased violence is the result of the parents not raising the child. Sense video games have come out the amount of teen violence has decreased by 30 percent. If people were not naturally violent then this would never be an issue, but violence sells and that means profits.
While it cannot be proven that video games cause more violence in people it has been proven that there are many mental effects of playing violent video games. In a study involving 80 Japanese children 40 played the nonviolent game, Need for Speed, and 40 played the violent game, Call of duty. In the 40 children that played there violent the areas of the brain that involve emotions and they even showed similar effects to endorphin releasing drugs. In short, video games are addicting.
Violence in games has changed so vastly in the past 30 years that what would be considered violent then is nothing by today’s standards. When video games first come out games like Pacman were considered violent, now there are games where you can walk around in a three dimensional world and shoot everything you see. Not all video gamers are violent either; there are plenty of games that are fun that involve no violence at