Just a game?

So my oldest just came back from his part-time dad’s just this last weekend. This was also the week that “Call of Duty 2” game just came out. Very adult content. Very violent. Very inappropriate for a 7 year old to be playing or watching.

I come home (Wednesday) and my husband says “we need to have a talk with Ethan’s dad.” I’m thinking, great, what did Ethan do now? My husband bought this game as well and would play during the times that the babies are napping and Ethan was doing his home schooling upstairs. My husband hears footsteps coming down stairs and pauses the game. Ethan looks up at the screen and says, “Oh cool! Is this Call of Duty?” My husband at him with shock that he even knew what this game was just by the pause screen.

This brings to mind, where is the adult content filter on this man? What is his rationality of letting a 7 year old watch a first shooter game that lacks morals and ethics? Don’t get me wrong, I love playing games myself. I met my husband on a online MMORP game. I feel as if there were many boundaries crossed and that is repeatedly being crossed every year. Not only does he let him watch adult content games and movies (brought him to Spider-Man III at 3 y.o.), but why can’t he be playing these games when he doesn’t have my son? He sees this child maybe two weekends a month and instead of spending quality time with him, he’s playing his adult games and having my son watch so he can “learn” to play like him.



When does a parent become apparent?