Video game addiction blamed for child abuse
Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Nutrition: Health, Media, That's Entertainment
A young Nevada couple who were so completely obsessed with video games that they completely neglected their 1 and 2-year-old children have pleaded guilty to child abuse.25-year old Michael and 23-year old Iana Straw were apparently so completely immersed in Dungeons and Dragons that they did not notice that their 11-month old daughter weighed 11 pounds, that their nearly-two-year old son was starving and infected. Authorities had to shave the head of the little girl because her hair was matted with cat urine. I want to throw up.
Apparently the American Medical Association is pondering a proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder, in the same vein as alcoholism. While my knee-jerk reaction to the medical disease of Video Game Addiction is: complete, ridiculous hoey, I kind of want to believe in its truth because I cannot fathom how a make-believe game could be more important to someone than feeding their tiny children.
Both children are apparently recovering well and gaining weight and medical attention in foster care. Thank god for that. I hope they don't remember any of this when they're older, but what an atrocious way to start life.
Man. I am sitting here blinking at my computer screen, aghast. Normally, children belong with their parents, no matter what, but even if these two parents went to video game rehab and swore that they were completely reformed, I'm not sure I believe they should ever have their kids back. Video game addiction? Will we ever cease with the bad excuses for inexcusable behavior?
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7-16-2007 @ 1:21PM
Ginny said...That is disgusting. Those poor children. :(
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7-16-2007 @ 2:16PM
queenoqueens said...Beyond horrible. Reminds me of the movie "Trainspotting" when the heroine addicts don't even realize their baby died in the crib while on one of their drug binges.
Sometimes I feel that I am addicted to ParentDish!
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7-16-2007 @ 2:57PM
caitlin said...I have to wonder if it there was more than just video games involved in the neglect. I used to belong to one of the uber guilds on my server when I played EQ, and we only had one set of parents. They usually just alternated game time, so someone was watching the kids.
Missing that your 11 month old daughter has enough cat urine in her hair to mat it badly enough for shaving to be the only remedy... it makes me wonder if there aren't drugs involved too.
And I don't think video game addiction is really the culprit here. There are people who should not have kids. My cousin and her ex husband were two of them. They neglected their 3 kids to the point that my aunt and uncle were able to get custody. It wasn't video games, it was just that they truly didn't get you can't put a baby down like a baby doll and do what you want. They thought nothing of leaving their infants and toddlers alone to go off partying or putting in ear plugs so they could sleep the next morning without the kids waking them up.
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