Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
This was rated teen; it should be a safe space for teens to engage in.

Parents shouldn't have to helicopter-mom over every single thing their kids want to do if an entire country's rating board has deemed it acceptable for them to do it.

Similarly, real life interactions at like.. a baseball game or camp site aren't "rated" by anyone either, that doesn't mean everyone has license to go full perv when it suits them.

At camp, kids might see some adult behavior or hear some language...heck the guys in the next tent over might even be getting in on...but if they wanna go swim in the pool for an hour or two the first thing I think about should not be "oh man I hope some older perv doesn't try to touch my kids".

Like I'm saying with camp- it doesn't mean there can't be adult goings on...but it is the adult's responsibility to check they are engaging with an adult 100%. Ignorance is no excuse and "I didn't know he was a boy.. or that he was 13" would not hold up in any court of law.
The ratings board doesn't deem the online elements acceptable for your kid, though; it's literally stated on the rating that it doesn't apply to online interactions. It's your choice to ignore that and not supervise your kid, and then scream "NOT MY FAULT; GAME SAID T!" if something goes wrong. You're just making excuses to be a lazy parent.

Online isn't baseball or camp; you can't see who you're interacting with. There's no reasonable way to know if someone is lying, so you're not legally responsible for knowing if someone is lying. It's perfectly reasonable to expect parents to watch their kids, though; so your kids are actually your responsibility... Crazy concept, right?