Outline

I'm using this first post to outline my question:

"How can we educate parents about the types of video games that they buy for their children?"

This question is relevant to my personal interests in the video gaming industry and my dream job in concept art for said industry. It is relevant to current affairs, as the R18+ classification was recently passed in Australia, however, it has done nothing to prevent children from consuming mature content. The classification hasn't done very much to allow new adult content to be released, as in the case of Saints Row IV; which was censored by the Australian Classification Board.
Popular opinion seems to be that gaming is for children and teenagers, however, increasingly, the majority of the gaming population is over 18, in part due to 1980s children being the first generation of gamers. These gamers should be allowed access to the content that the rest of the world (and especially, the US) has access to. Parents need to be better educated about the ratings system and how to set parental controls on the console or PC that their children have access to.