Should Kids have the Same Right to Privacy as Adults

Whether kids should have the same rights as adults has always been a long-discussed issue of whether kids should have the same privacy rights as adults. That many kids have fought with their parents over this issue. Suppose adults should be able to go through kids’ things and invade their privacy and personal information. My opinion on this topic is that if I had my privacy intruded on, it would not make me very happy that everything I did would be monitored and watched. It would make me feel like I had a camera on me 24/7, and if I did anything even remotely wrong, I would be caught for it and be in trouble. I understand the argument that it makes the Adults in your life have more ease of mind knowing what you are getting up to and the stuff you get into, but I believe that kind of eliminates that trust between you and the adults and makes kids maybe more inclined to do something becouse they are ready know they are going to be in trouble for it. However, I believe that if your kid is known to get into stuff that they shouldn’t be and have already abused your trust, I believe that is a good reason for them to lose their right to privacy.

Many Parents like to go through their kids’ phones to make sure that they are using the internet safely and not talking to people they’re not supposed to or seeing things that they believe their kids are not old enough to see or content that they want their children involved with.

As a freshman I had not had my privacy gone through on things such as my phone or other electronics but I did have many friends that had to worry about doing anything on their phone because of the chance that their parents made them let them go though it and find anythng and end up losing their phone and possibly any other permissions. They had their privacy invaded because their parents wanted to find something and get them in trouble.

But many parents argue that by them invading their child’s privacy, they are making sure that they do not do anything they regret, but rather they are making their kids not experience any consequences for their actions, so that they will never learn to be responsible for their actions.

In all my thought processes that the right to privacy is an earned trust between parent and child and that If they abuse that right and lose their privacy, that is a consenqucne on their action but if the parent just ramdoly wants to invade their privacy I do not agree with the random checks on their technology.

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