Pokemon Trainers Club Kids Account

Same boat with my daughter. I can understand why they would want to block these features - there's a bit of a creepy vibe to the "Friends" list and the Trading feature that I'm uncomfortable with. The "Last Pokémon Caught" feature is raising my eyebrows, and the requirement to be within 100m of the Trading Partner could potentially be used to track down someone. If they aren't in range, they're more than 100m away from you, but if they are in range...

My guess is that this is a legal issue, and they either know that they can't do this for under-13's or they don't want to risk a lawsuit that they can't win (bad publicity could be worse than actually losing the lawsuit) just to allow kids to access this part of the game.

Pretty sure this is federal law. No site with any social features lets you sign up if you're under 13 (except a very small number that have special hoops to jump through). Every kid learns really fast to lie about age when signing up things. It's great preparation for later in their adolescence when they'll be buying tobacco (or juul pods now I guess?) and beer underaged.

I am betting you do not want your young kids trading "special" things with strange old men in dark alleys at night. This is supposed to help prevent that. While this rule sucks it is there for good reason. Not all parents are as careful as us about what and where are kids are playing on-line.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/8sfj2f/a_hopefully_comprehensive_teardown_of_01071/

The data mining of the current version includes the first indications that they are adding support for another new login service that might be addressing the problems with PTC child accounts.

My son as well. Is shity as locks them out of content. And means that he will not b able to get friendship balls putting him at a further disadvantage