Originally posted by: monikameghan
If a parent is checking his/her children’s phone, it does not mean they have trust issues or vise-versa. In today’s world, children can get trapped in bad online company that can lead to some serious safety issues. If parents keep an eye and also educate their children then many serious encounters can be avoided.
I said that children don’t like their parents checking their phone. It has nothing to do with trust or anything to do with hiding anything. It is just that when children think they are old enough to do whatever they want, they don’t like anyone including their parents checking on them. It is a very general statement.
How each family or parents deal with it that is their own choice.
Whatever one’s choices or beliefs are regarding one’s life, parents and/or in-laws, they have to be completely their own. Ultimately it is one self who has to deal with the consequences of the choices he/she makes. It should not be compared to what happens on a fictional show to an extreme extent. That is not a real life that they are showing. It might coincidentally somewhat resemble an incident or two of someone’s life but that’s about it.
@red I agree, parents mostly do it to screen out any potential bad company that their children may get in contact with online. Children who grow up tp become teens most of the time fall into peer pressure, and i'm not talking about 18 plus adults, i am referring to minors, they often do a lot of shit that would not be approved of by their parents and that is exactly why they have an issue with their parents going through their phones, the normal and this why i say it is a matter of lacking trust, if you're child is not doing anything objectionable then they should have no issues with you going through their phones because its not like it has something you dont know already unless they are watching those adult 18+ movies or web series and that what they don'r want you to see.