and i think it is unrealistic to think that parents should censor your childs t.v. watching... or video game playing...
50% of mariages end in divorce... 99% of the time the mother gets full custody.. and that mother works full time.. and sometimes two jobs to keep her family alive.. so in the meantime the child is unsupervised and making their own tv watching dicisions.. and in two parent households... most of those both the parents work.. so no one is home to watch kids when they are working...
What I get from this is that because a parent can't watch their child 24/7 because of work that the government should be responsible for watching your children. I have to disagree. Even if a parent is not there to stand over a child to make sure he/she is behaving/following the rules, I think it's unfair to assume that the child will not respect the parent's wishes/rules.

A parent can restrict a child's tv/videogame viewing without standing over the child 24/7. There's such things as the v-chip and restricting what types of videogames are bought or brought into the home. It also has to do with how you raise your child, if you can't always trust what your child is doing or the decisions your child makes when you are not there, then what type of child are you raising? It is possible to be a responsible parent and instill values even if the parent works a lot.

The government is there to promote standards of basic decency. That standard is constantly changing. If you as a parent disagree with it, it is up to you as the parent to censor your child. No matter how many hours a parent works, if that parent feels that strongly about what their child is exposed to with television and videogames, censoring the child can be done...not perfectly of course, there will probably always be some instances where the parent can't control the situation, but on the whole the parent does ultimately control what their child is exposed to.