Parents Enable Age‑Gate Evasion

A notable share of parents actively help or tacitly allow children to bypass legal age checks, turning enforcement of online age limits into a social problem as much as a technical one. Policy effectiveness therefore depends not just on gate design but on parental behavior and incentive structures. — If parents commonly enable evasion, age‑verification laws (like the UK's Online Safety Act) will fail unless policy addresses household practices, enforcement incentives, or offers alternatives that don't drive mass circumvention or heightened surveillance.