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Originally Posted by World's King
Yes, I did drugs, drank, fucked, ditched school and did all those things associated with teenage rebellion. But I never gave my parents a reason to spy on me or go through my stuff when I wasn't home.
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Yes you did. You did drugs, drank, fucked, and ditched school.
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They knew what I was doing.
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Then that's more a reflection on their parental aptitude than it is an example of sound child-rearing. When a kid is doing wrong it is the parent's job to correct the behavior - something the parent can't do if they either don't know about it or ignore it.
There is no such thing as violating your child's privacy. The child has no privacy. If the child is mature enough to enjoy complete privacy and no parental check-ups on what his activites and interests are, then the child is mature enough to move out and get a job.
We as a society recognize that children do not reliably make good decisions. This is why kids aren't allowed to drive, can't enter into binding contracts, and get their criminal records wiped clean once they become an adult. It is rather silly to admit that a kid is not mature enough to reliably avoid making harmful choices, and then turn around and preach that children should be given strict privacy, and that parents should never try to find out if the kid is doing something he shouldn't.