Beer and Porn for teens don't worry parents as much as video games

Forget sex and alcohol, the bane of most teens’ parents. A new study finds that parents are more worried about the video games their children are playing than drinking or pornography. What They Play, a parent’s guide to video games, conducted separate polls of some 3,000 parents who reported that playing certain video games was less acceptable than watching porn and drinking beer. The surveys also found that watching violence was more acceptable than sexual content in video games. The only thing parents were more concerned about their children doing than playing the game “Grand Theft Auto” (19 percent) was smoking marijuana (49 percent). Watching pornography and drinking beer came in at 16 percent and 14 percent, respectively. Experts say that parents’ reactions are not that surprising given that parents believe video games are full of dangers they don’t know about.