Presidential Candidates Talk Video Games
As a parent, what is your biggest concern when it comes to the media’s impact on kids?
Kids today spend nearly 45 hours per week consuming media. They only spend 30 hours a week in school and 17 hours a week with their parents. Given the huge proportion of time that kids spend with the media, how big a priority will the media’s impact on kids be in your administration if you are elected?
To date, nearly 10 states have considered legislation to keep violent video games out of kids’ hands. Would you support this type of legislation at the federal level?
What other strategies would you support to keep the video game industry and other media companies from marketing and selling inappropriate content to children?
Click on the link to see the answers from; John Edwards, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Mitt Romney.
