It's a little satire of how serious issues get dumbed down by Sally Struthers appeals to "think of the children".
As I pointed out in another post in the thread, technical controls are last ditch place to enforce policy. You could take the same lame "the children!" Argument and apply it to speeding (why not govern speed in cars?) or food service (make it impossible to undercook an egg) or a thousand other things.
