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You are also not allowed as a parent to enforce your child not playing after a certain age. It will depend on the country, but where I live you are, among other things, not allowed to forbid social contacts of your child unless there is significant harm involved. No judge would see “they are playing video games at their friends house” as serious harm.

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Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Where do you live? I’ve never heard of anything like that.

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- ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I live in Germany. You can read about the law here, for example:
  
  Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
  
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dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Social contacts or social contracts? Does gambling fall under this? I could see someone arguing that some of these games are essentially gambling.

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- ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Actual gambling is for adults (18+ and I think casinos are 21+). So when parents can proof the friend of their child is actively involving the child into that type of gambling they could potentially forbid the contact.
  
  But Fortnite for example is free for kids 12 and older. There is nothing you can legally do about your child visiting a friend and playing Fortnite there.
  
  You also can’t stop your child from coming into contact with games on smartphones other people bring to school.
  
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