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Parents Seen as Most Responsible for Keeping Violent Video Games Away From Children, Says New First Amendment Center Survey by Gallup

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Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:49:01 AM
Parents Seen as Most Responsible for Keeping Violent Video Games Away From Children, Says New First Amendment Center Survey by Gallup

Weekend survey also finds majority say government should be able to ban sales, rentals to minors

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Parents should be most responsible for determining whether minors can buy or rent violent video games, according to a new, nationwide survey conducted for the nonpartisan First Amendment Center.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Nov. 2 over a California law that prohibits the sale or rental to anyone under the age of 18 of games that portray the fictional "killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting of an image of a human being."

"The survey results show a clear majority of Americans see parents having the most responsibility for deciding whether violent video games ought to be purchased or rented by children, but a smaller majority also approve a government ban," said Gene Policinski, vice president and executive director of the first Amendment Center.

The survey, conducted Oct. 29-30 by Gallup, asked how much responsibility parents, video-game manufacturers, government or retail or online stores, should have for deciding whether children may buy or rent such games. The survey found:

    --  86% said parents should have a "great deal" of responsibility, the
        highest result on the question, with just 4% saying they have no
        responsibility.
    --  43% said video-game manufacturers and retail or online stores should
        have a "great deal" of responsibility, with less than 20% saying the
        groups should have no responsibility.
    --  28% said government should have a "great deal" of responsibility, with
        26% saying no responsibility.

Still, respondents by a 2-1 margin would permit laws such as California's ban on sale or rentals to minors: 68% said government should be able to prevent sales or rentals of violent games to children under age 18; 31% said it should not, with 2% undecided.

"In recent decades, adults concerned about the impact of comic books, popular music and movies on children have pressed for government control of content, but voluntary industry codes and parental monitoring largely have worked," said Ken Paulson, president of the First Amendment Center.  "Mom and Dad are still in the best position to keep inappropriate content out of the hands of kids."

Results of the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted Oct. 29-30, 2010, by Gallup on the Gallup Daily tracking survey, with a random sample of 1,033 adults, age 18 or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, selected using random-digit dial sampling. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points. Complete results of the survey and methodology are available on the First Amendment Center's Web site, http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org

Experts at the First Amendment Center are available to discuss the survey findings: Ken Paulson, president; Gene Policinski, vice president and executive director; and David Hudson, First Amendment Center scholar. To arrange an interview, please contact the First Amendment Center at 615-727-1600.

The First Amendment Center supports the First Amendment and builds understanding of its core freedoms through education, information and entertainment. The center, with offices at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and Washington, D.C., is an operating program of the Freedom Forum and is associated with the Newseum and the Diversity Institute. Its offices on the Vanderbilt campus are in the John Seigenthaler Center. The center is nonpartisan and does not lobby or litigate. For more information: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org.

SOURCE  First Amendment Center

First Amendment Center

CONTACT: First Amendment Center, +1-615-727-1600

Web Site: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org
 
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