Editing Parental controls (section)

==Overview==
Behavioral control consists of controlling the amount of time a child spends online, or how much the child can view. Psychological control involves parents trying to influence children's behavior.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.pvc.maricopa.edu/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CCX2940400241&docType=Topic+overview&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GVRL&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2940400241&searchId=R1&userGroupName=mcc_pv&inPS=true#|title=Parenting|last=Laible|first=D|date=2012|website=Gale Virtual Reference Library}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Several techniques exist for creating parental controls for blocking websites. Add-on parental control software may monitor [[API]] in order to observe applications such as a web browser or Internet chat application and to intervene according to certain criteria, such as a match in a database of banned words. Virtually all parental control software includes a password or other form of [[authentication]] to prevent unauthorized users from disabling it.

Techniques involving a [[proxy server]] are also used.<ref>{{cite web|last=Seltzer|first=Larry|title=Turn Your Windows Home Server Into A Proxy Server|url=http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/networking/284935-turn-your-windows-home-server-into-a-proxy-server|access-date=26 September 2008}}</ref> A [[web browser]] is set to send requests for web content to the proxy server rather than directly to the web server intended. The proxy server then fetches the web page from the server on the browser's behalf and passes on the content to the browser. Proxy servers can inspect the data being sent and received and intervene depending on various criteria relating to content of the page or the URL being requested, for example, using a [[database]] of banned words or banned URLs. The proxy method's major disadvantage is that it requires that the client application to be configured to utilize the proxy, and if it is possible for the user to reconfigure applications to access the Internet directly rather than going through the proxy, then this control is easily bypassed. Proxy servers themselves may be used to circumvent parental controls. There are other techniques used to bypass parental controls.

The computer usage management method, unlike content filters, is focused on empowering the parents to balance the computing environment for children by regulating gaming. The main idea of these applications is to allow parents to introduce a learning component into the computing time of children, who must earn gaming time while working through educational contents.

Network-based parental control devices have been develop which work as a firewall router using packet filtering, DNS [[Response policy zone|response policy zone]] (RPZ) and [[deep packet inspection]] (DPI) methods to block inappropriate web content. These methods have been used in commercial and governmental communication networks. Another form of these devices made for home networks has been developed. These devices plug into the home router and create a new wireless network, which is specifically designed for kids to connect to.<ref>"US interest in router box offering parental control." ''Australian'' [National, Australia], 24 Jan. 2017, p. 24. ''Global Issues In Context'', http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A478654821/OVIC?u=mcc_pv&sid=OVIC&xid=5d6f1e1a Accessed 4 Apr. 2018.</ref>