Video games can be brutally violent, to the point that parents worry the games will permanently warp their children's minds. For that reason, millions of parents use video ratings systems to keep questionable games out of the home. However, according to a report released by the National Institute on Media and the Family, parents' best efforts to keep adult materials away from their children are being undermined by local arcades which fail to enforce hands-off …showed first 75 words of 447 total…

…showed last 75 words of 447 total…acts," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Connecticut, explained. Home computer games can be even more disturbing. Lieberman showed a game in which the winning creature actually urinates over the body of its victim. Critics say that parents can't duck this issue, and software makers say they've done their part, by making it convenient to find out how graphic a game is. Almost all new video and computer games now carry ratings, compared with only 80 percent last year.