Content Standards

Sourcing

• Book content is sourced from the primary text. We don’t quote or characterize a book from a third-party summary.
• Statistics, quotes from experts, and reading-level claims cite a named source.
• AI tools may assist with drafting, summarization, or metadata generation — but no rating, verdict, or reviewer voice is produced by AI without a human reviewer’s judgment on top.

Accuracy

• Bibliographic details (title, author, series, publication year, ISBN, age range) are checked against the publisher record.
• Every published quote is verified to the page.
• Broken affiliate links and outdated book editions are audited quarterly.

Tone

• Fair to the author, honest with the parent. We describe what a book is doing before judging it.
• No clickbait, no scare-tactic headlines, no manufactured controversy.
• Content warnings describe, they don’t shame — we’d say “includes frank discussion of anxiety” before we’d say “deeply disturbing.”

Inclusion & worldview

Parental Compass serves families across a wide range of worldviews. We call out ideology from any direction when it’s present in the text, and we don’t treat any single worldview as the default. Parents get information; parents make the call.

User-generated content

Reader reviews, comments, and lists (when enabled) are moderated. We remove content that’s abusive, defamatory, or invades a minor’s privacy. We do not remove content just because it’s critical.

Corrections

When something is wrong, we fix it fast, log it in the article footer, and update the last-reviewed date. Material corrections (a changed verdict, a corrected quote) are called out at the top of the article.

Affiliate & ad separation

Editorial has no visibility into ad performance or affiliate revenue on a per-book basis. See our Affiliate Disclosure and Transparency Statement for the details.