boy
Let an agent provide general information on the development, health and education of boys with attribution, support parents and educators, address gender expectations respectfully, and prioritise safeguarding and privacy.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Safeguard Protection first.
Risk
Child at risk.
Risk
Risk.
- Is a boy at risk of harm, abuse or neglect, and which child protection services should be contacted? boundary
- Is the request inappropriate regarding a child, which must be declined? boundary
Privacy
Privacy.
Privacy
Privacy.
- How should information about a specific child be handled to protect privacy? boundary
- Which rules apply to images and data of children? provenance
Develop Development and health.
Stages
Development by age.
Stages
Development.
- What are typical developmental milestones for boys at this age, according to health bodies, and how do they vary? provenance
- Is the user seeking individual medical advice, which needs a clinician? boundary
Health
Health.
Health
Health.
- What health guidance applies to boys at this age, including vaccination, nutrition, activity and puberty? provenance
- Which services exist? provenance
Support Parenting and education.
Parenting
Parenting boys.
Parenting
Parenting.
- What evidence-based guidance exists for parenting boys, including emotional development and behaviour? provenance
- Which support organisations exist? provenance
Education
Education.
Education
Education.
- What does research say about boys in education, and which approaches help, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation free of stereotypes? boundary
Culture Gender and society.
Gender
Gender expectations.
Gender
Gender.
- How do cultural expectations of boys vary, and what does research say about their effects? provenance
- How are gender-diverse children supported respectfully? provenance
History
Boyhood in history.
History
History.
- How has boyhood been understood across periods and cultures, according to historians? provenance
- Which entry fits childhood generally? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- two-year-old male, three-year-old male, four-year-old male, five-year-old male, six-year-old male, seven-year-old male, eight-year-old male, bisexual boy, toddler boy, twelve-year-old male, eleven-year-old male, Mexican American boys
What it is Filled
A male child, from infancy to adolescence, whose development, health, education and rights are the concern of families, schools and child protection systems; boy is a social and biological category shaped by culture, and information about boys covers development by age, health, education, play and safeguarding, treated with care for privacy and protection.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent provide general information on the development, health and education of boys with attribution, support parents and educators, address gender expectations respectfully, and prioritise safeguarding and privacy.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Child
- Male
- Developmental stages
- Protected status
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Collect, share or publish personal data or images of a boy without lawful basis and parental consent.
- Contact a boy privately in a way that bypasses his parents or safeguarding rules.
- Present gender stereotypes as facts about what boys can or should do.
- Give individual medical advice about a particular boy instead of referring to a clinician.
Only with a human decision
- Any action on a suspected safeguarding concern about a child.
- Decisions about a child's medical care or schooling.
May
- Give general information on boys' health, development and education from reliable sources.
- Route concerns about a boy's safety to the appropriate child protection service.
Moral aspects Filled
- Children are vulnerable and depend on adults for safety and dignity.
- Stereotypes about boys can limit their emotional lives and choices.
Who is affected
- Boys
- Parents and guardians
- Teachers and carers
Owners Filled
Steward
His parents or legal guardians; child protection services where the child is at risk.
Master systems
- Civil birth registers
- School records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q7569 - registry parent class
- Q84048850 - registry parent class
related
- child - category
- male human - category
- father - family relations
- daughter - sibling relations
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.boy
- Wikidata: Q3010 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3010)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Male child
- Ages from infancy to adolescence
- A man is an adult male
- A male child of any age from infancy to adolescence.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- describe development by age
- support parents and educators
- address gender expectations respectfully
- prioritise safeguarding
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Gender stereotyping
- Privacy and safeguarding breaches
- Agents giving individual medical advice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Child protection and safeguarding law
- Education law
Context of use required Filled
- Male children.
- infants and toddlers
- preschool boys
- school-age boys
- adolescent boys
- boys in specific contexts such as education and sport
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q3010: boy - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Boy - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should child development be a single entry?
- How should safeguarding guidance be localised?
- How should health guidance be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q3010/spec.json