Banshee16 said:One of the key definitions of addiction being whether the behaviour interferes with leading a normal, adaptive life......letting one's children starve because they're too busy playing MMOs is a good indicator.
Banshee
Exactly.
Now I don't know if playing these online games really was the reason these parents neglected these babies. It could be something that thier attorney cooked up to try and get a lesser sentence. They just could be bad parents and would have neglected their kids anyway. Or it could be evidence of an addicition there is no way for any of us to know from the articles being written in the media about this.