When your kid turns 13 (or maybe it was 14), Google decides they're an adult now and takes the reins away from you. We just went through this with our teen
I don't trust social media companies to self-regulate this kind of stuff at all.
https://support.google.com/families/answer/7106787?hl=en
This one's an anecdote I found when searching just now:
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/z4r77a/google_fami...
https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/COPPA-Childr...
Google stops locking in to behavior that is a direct response to age-related government regulations and defaults to the choice of the registered user at exactly the age the regulatiom ceases to apply?
Weird.