65 girls pregnant at one high school: video games to blame?

[GetGamer News]

65 out of 490 young ladies who attend Timkin
High School in Canton, Ohio are preggers, and video games may be to blame, according to a local Ohio newspaper,
which had this to say on the subject:

Whose fault is it that more than 13 percent of Timken’s girls are with child? Some would say fault-finding isn’t
a fruitful exercise, but in this case, it’s critical. Suspects range from movies, TV and video games to lazy parents
and lax discipline. Only one thing is sure: Schools don’t impregnate children.

Hey, I’m just a blogger and not a doctor, but I thought for sure that games can’t impregnate children either. In
fact, if my wife’s reaction to my gaming habits are any indication, games are a very effective method of birth
control.


[Via Blogdex]




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[Red Devil]

Ok, now that's just ridiculous...

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I can't think of anything else to say to that really...

[Sharpshooter]

This proves me right. People are trying to use videogames as a scapegoat to all of life's problems. So... games get people to shoot people and into drugs, now games tell people to get pregnant? Either this is stupid or i've not been concentrating properly on the games and missed those 'hidden' messages.