Well, what I really think is that we need to stop " the games are bad for kids " thing. It's true that we don't want our kids to see explicit sexual content. In order to prevent that, you can just ask the retailer if such scenes exist in the game. But certain studies proved that the Gamers reflexes are better, that we can hear better. So it's not necessary bad. As for the violence, I play games since I was like 4 years old, it doesn't affect you, it really depends on how efficient you can explain to the kid that the video games are not real. ( P.S. I don't have kids, I just tried to get in the boots of the people who do have kids )