> at some point parents need to parent

You write it as if companies provided tons of help to parents and children. Meanwhile, they spend a lot of money to make it as hard as possible.

Second, kids in Germany have generally a lot more freedom and there is less of knee jerk impulse to blame parents for every accident. Expectation is that adults dont harm them without parents having perfect control every sevond.

The age verification sniffing laws will come to the EU and Germany too, so your assessment is, in my opinion, too limited and incomplete. It's not really about parenting, it is about grabbing more and more data from people.