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If you need to spy on your kids to keep tabs on them, you're a shitty parent. You should be able to discuss enabling Find My (assuming they have an iPhone) on their phone and why that's required (by you) openly.
Too many inept people have children. That's a large part of why society is in such decline.
Hey asshole, special needs kids are big and strong and smart enough to get themselves out in the world and need ways to get to them to keep them safe. There are plenty of reasonable reasons for tracking tech for your kid that aren’t helicopter parenting.
You don't need to be a helicopter parent to explain to your kids that you want to be able to find them if needed. And you don't need to monitor them just because that feature is enabled. A reasonable parent can require the feature be enabled and only use it when there's cause.
I maintain that if you need to hide your tracker from your child, you suck as a parent. And if your kid has special needs that make this untenable, that's obviously different from what I originally said broadly about most parents.
The USA is forcing women to have kids.
Truer words have never been spoken
Yes, now more than ever. But inept people had children who they raised to be thoughtless party-followers rather than free-thinkers and that's why Roe v Wade was overturned.
I am sure most people are considering doing this have elementary aged children. A $20 tag feels like a better option than a $1000 phone. I'd prefer putting it on a backpack than in a shoe though.
All parents spy on their children. That doesn't make you a shitty parent. What you do with that info and how you handle it does.