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Should parents use a GPS tracking device to monitor their children?

Should parents use GPS tracking to monitor their children?


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Yeah, I said it was the parent's choice. I just don't like the tracking stuff a whole lot. I think it will end up opening doors best left closed.

Well, my son wanders all over the neighborhood after about 4 p.m. on his bike. There are days when I'd like to have GPS because he consistently leaves his phone at home. I feel like our neighborhood is relatively safe, almost zero crime, but some days, I'd like to know his EXACT location. That's probably unthinkable to some parents, but in my suburban/rural area, it's pretty much the norm.
 
Actually, while gang crime has recently started to increase again, it's still considerably below the peak years of 1993-1996.
good news. i still don't think it's a bad thing to track young children. as i posted, it might even allow for more freedom. i was lucky, my kids grew up in small towns with no crime to speak of.
 
I don't even see the purpose of debating it. Xenu and Allah above know that the more ingenious will simply pop it in the microwave.
 
I don't even see the purpose of debating it. Xenu and Allah above know that the more ingenious will simply pop it in the microwave.
lol!

not if they don't know where it is.
 
Well, my son wanders all over the neighborhood after about 4 p.m. on his bike. There are days when I'd like to have GPS because he consistently leaves his phone at home. I feel like our neighborhood is relatively safe, almost zero crime, but some days, I'd like to know his EXACT location. That's probably unthinkable to some parents, but in my suburban/rural area, it's pretty much the norm.

I'm not saying there aren't sometimes reasonable arguments for. I just in general do not like that sort of tracking and think it can very easily lead to bad places. So I'd rather avoid the slope all together. This sort of thing will probably only exacerbate the problem of people unreasonably freaking out anyway.
 
lol!

not if they don't know where it is.

This is the generation growing up in the technological age. 8 year olds are already running circles around their parents on the home PC. They'll find a way to disable the thing in no time. You'll have to implant it in their buttcheeks, and even then they'll find a way around it. :lol:
 
Well, if Little Johnny doesn't come home, the parents can be comforted with the fact that they found his lunch box.

NOTHING beats actually watching the child.

Amazing concept, for a nation that includes citizens willing to put their six week old infants in day care, but people should spend more time with their kids, and the includes picking them up at school.
 
children are kidnapped and killed every day.

The odds of a child being kidnapped or killed (especially by someone other than the parents themselves) are TINY, if you live in the United States. Just because the media follows the "If it bleeds, it leads" motto doesn't mean this is actually a commonplace occurrence.
 
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not offhand i can't. maybe is is just a sentiment, but it seems to me gang shootings were much less common 20 years ago, as well as child murder.

even if that wasn't the case, why not know where your young children are?

Why not search their room and read their diary too, in case they're planning to run away from home?
 
Well, if Little Johnny doesn't come home, the parents can be comforted with the fact that they found his lunch box.

NOTHING beats actually watching the child.

Amazing concept, for a nation that includes citizens willing to put their six week old infants in day care, but people should spend more time with their kids, and the includes picking them up at school.

:lol: :rofl ;)
 
i just don't quite see why anybody thinks it's an issue. seems to me it's a parent's perogative.

What's the issue, that I was amused by someone's post?

I agree, it's a waste of money to use this device to protect against abductors. It's absurd, they are going to get rid of or destroy the device immediately.

It's more of a tool to micromanage children, and they will most certainly find ways around that.

You may as well go all out and microchip the kiddos... :rolleyes:
 
Should parents use a GPS tracking device to monitor their children?

ABSOLUTELY! With all the weirdos and pedos in "community care"...
Chip implant would be even better.
 
You guys are paranoid. Don't believe everything the 7:00 news feeds you. :roll:
 
Isn't it an established fact that kids are more often the victims of people they know and trust than of strangers? I think I remember reading a study about it.
How is the GPS going to protect them from the predators in their own family?
 
No. What a ridiculous invasion of their kid's privacy. Parents can be so overprotective.

When your child is living with you and under the age of 18 there is no such thing as "invasion of their kid's privacy". It is a parents duty and right to make sure that their children are not doing things that they are not suppose to be doing. It is such mentality as the quoted post that has allowed kids to think that they can get away with anything.

Kids need to know what's right and what's wrong. Kids need to know that they will not get away with things that are wrong.

As to the OP it should be up to the parents.
 
Anecdotal sentiments.



Well, if it's a matter of attachment against their will, it seems a fairly straightforward ethical violation, since the discomfort that they endure through the knowledge of being constantly electronically monitored is likely to exceed the comfort that their parents gain from spying. :shrug:

Eithical violation? What's more unethical? A little bit of percieved discomfort or not making sure your kids are safe?
 
ABSOLUTELY! With all the weirdos and pedos in "community care"...
Chip implant would be even better.

It sounds like you've been swallowing some of that propaganda that you decry...how Soviet of you. :rofl

When your child is living with you and under the age of 18 there is no such thing as "invasion of their kid's privacy".

Of course there is. Simply refer to the Lacey Dixon case.
 
You guys are paranoid. Don't believe everything the 7:00 news feeds you. :roll:

I better be on a paranoid side than lose my kids!
 
Paranoia and the need to be 'safe' is what will lead to us surrending all of our individual freedoms. Once we are all chipped and barcoded, that opens the door to a society that I would hate to live in.
 
Eithical violation? What's more unethical? A little bit of percieved discomfort or not making sure your kids are safe?

Considering the aforementioned fact of the far higher probability of parental aggression against children and youths than stranger aggression, it seems as though the "little bit of perceived discomfort" would be that of the parents, as opposed to the legitimate discomfort of the spychip compartments...and a discomfort colored by propagandistic misinformation from the mass media. :shrug:
 
It sounds like you've been swallowing some of that propaganda that you decry...how Soviet of you. :rofl

Don't care!

A few weeks ago I saw a 50-something years old dude in shorts and "Jesus" sandals with black socks sitting by a play area, stareing at the kids! Suspicious or what? :D
 
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