Justin Apresa a sixteen year-old boy remembers how he first came to learn about sex and the treatment of the opposite sex. "It wasn't like my parents talked to me about sex and girls," Justin commented. He learned about it through his cousin who, at the time was merely seventeen years old. Justin remembers how his cousin told him that the more women he slept with, the more "Macho" he would become, meaning more of a "Man" in English terms. He was also told that women liked to be treated like sexual objects, if a women refused to have sex with him, it did not matter because he was a "Man". Justin explained that he grew up with the misconception that sex was a gift given to him from God. "I remember thinking how awesome it would be to sleep with as many women as I pleased," Justin would say. Who is to blame why this adolescent became misguided? It is easy to hold the video games, television and the school system responsible, but the real problem is parents. The parents are no longer teaching children morals; they have become dependent on other sources to teach their children life's values. .
Video games are replacing parents as the teachers of morals. "Video games are becoming more and more violent," comments twenty-two-year old Felipe Herrera, "they depict too much brutal and sadistic behavior". Graphic video games, such as Mortal Kombat, can desensitize children and give them the wrong morals by showing graphic images of people killing each other. Children can get the mistaken idea of taking another person's life; by thinking it is all right. The problem is that parents do not sit down with their children and talk to them about the wrong ideas video games present. They should clarify mortality to them and explain why killing is wrong and not natural. They ought to check the games their children play for excessive violence and not let those games teach the wrong ideas to their kids.
