[dotandgtfo]

Could you point me in a direction that I can research for this? It seems interesting.

I don't trust social media companies to self-regulate this kind of stuff at all.

[n2dasun]

Looks like the other replies here are correct. It's law-driven and can be worked around.

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...