The phrase "authority over children" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing power dynamics, responsibilities, or governance related to children, such as in parenting, education, or legal matters.
Example: "Teachers have a certain level of authority over children while they are in the classroom, ensuring a safe and productive learning environment."
Alternatives: "control over children" or "power over children".
The FTC's authority over children's mobile apps comes from laws that prohibit unfair and deceptive acts of commerce, as well as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, which requires operators of online services for children under 13 to get consent from parents before collecting and sharing personal information.
Its provisions concerned such matters as legal procedure, debt foreclosure, paternal authority over children, property rights, inheritance, and funerary regulations.
Its provisions concerned legal procedure, debt foreclosure, paternal authority over children, property rights, inheritance, funerary regulations, and various major and minor offenses.
The new laws stipulate a duty of care on organisations which exercise care, supervision or authority over children, to prevent abuse perpetrated by individuals associated with it.
A mandatory reporting scheme needs to be devised that complements good safeguarding policies, where they exist, and provides clarity about the obligations of those in positions of authority over children.
Women's rights have been established through a series of legislative acts guaranteeing the right to vote, to work and to receive equal pay for equal work, and to stand on equal footing in a marriage, including in the authority over children.
Mothers-in-law have authority over child-rearing decisions in many Indian households, but Sharmila concluded that she couldn't abide by that social norm.
Despite the feminist movement and other gender equity efforts, women largely retain authority over child-rearing and household chores and finances, with men deferring to their expertise in these matters, researchers point out.
Los Angeles County government has no such leader, and even after the board reluctantly increased the powers of the chief budget officer and called him a chief executive, it pulled away from him most authority over child protection — at about the same time as it adopted the first directive to create a single entity.
"One of the challenges we face is that we don't have regulatory authority over child care.
At the other end of the scale, you get parents relinquishing their authority over their children, because their children are cared for.
