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The question is that the hell do the adults think when they pass the store?

jgemrich wrote:I have a good friend that says there are 3 things you can't claim knowledge or comment on until you actually have experience in the field.

1) having sex
2) being married
3) having kids

There are a lot of tough choices to be made as a parent. It is tough to know when and how you make the right ones for your kids (when they are young). Tough to know how to guide them in their decisions (when they get older) and when you allow them to make their own decisions (and mistakes). Me... I'll cross that bridge with the kids when I get there.

QFT.

The thing people are missing in their responses to the OP is that the kids' parents may be right. Different kids handle violence -- pretend or otherwise -- in different ways. It's the parents' job to determine what they can handle at a given age. They may or may not be correct, and you may or may not agree with their standpoint...but chances are they have a much better handle on their kids' maturity level than an outsider.

Before you're a parent, it's very easy to point out "bad parenting." Once you're a parent, you start giving other parents more benefit of the doubt because you *understand*.

The thing is violence only affects you if you let it.

garret wrote:The thing is violence only affects you if you let it.

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Alright, but small children don't have that control. You don't get that control untill you have melted your brain with violent footage and simulations like most of us have. Even then, it does affect you, you can just ignore it and move on. I watch Saving Private Ryan every 4th of July, and sometimes I don't watch the final bridge scene.

Just putting in my two cents.

There is no definite study yet produced, that proves violent tabletop games (or computer games in general) like warhammer 40K produced violent individuals, period.

Looking at all the weapons, spiky things, bloody battles and gore of the wh40K fluff, definitely it's a violent setting for a game. We could not fault the parents for trying to shelter their children, study or not it is their right. I wish them best on that, since I know this is not an ideal world there are alot of things out there which will give real-life 'violent' lessons than a mere tabletop game. I wish too that their children do not have to learn those the hard way.

My best wishes to all parents out there.