Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Location Tracking - Parents, LET GO OF THE REIGNS!


         I am so sick of over-worried and over-protected parents. This whole idea of Location Tracking, or putting chips in children to track them, physically sickens me. It is not the right of a parent to do that to their child or for a hospital to do that to their Alzheimer's patients just because they don't have a voice of their own to disagree with it. All children of a young age are going to get into some trouble but it is the parents' responsibility to watch them - it shouldn't be put on technology. It shows how lazy some people can be, which may not be the intention but it comes across that way. This is honestly a huge invasion of the child to require attached chips on them and I would never support a bill like this in Congress. We have been raising children for hundreds of years and we have never needed any of this - why should be now? It makes me so frustrated that parents are so hyper-worried and over-protective that they can't even let their newborn-5 year old alone without a promise of being able to know where they are at every single moment. 
         When it comes to teenagers it is completely unreasonable. Teenagers need to learn how to be independent through the mistakes they make and the parent's have no right to hold so tightly onto the reigns through needing to know where they are always. Personally, this would lead to a total resentment of my parents because I would see it as a violation of privacy and a lack of trust. I understand that come crazy parents want to prevent bad things before they happen but sometimes all you can do is be there for your child when the bad things inevitably happen. Also, being so overprotective will never result in a stable and functioning child. Either the teenager will end up completely unprepared for the outside world due to the large amount of shelter from it or they will become completely dishonest and sneaky through finding loopholes in the protective system. 
       Alzheimer's patients are no different. I understand that seniors who are more forgetful can be extremely difficult, and at times dangerous, but once again if they are in the right care there shouldn't be a problem. I mean its time people start taking responsibility again and not depend on technology to solve every single problem. I honestly find in ironic that the same generation who call us teenagers and college students too "dependent" on technology want to use it for reasons that prove their own dependence.
      There comes a times where we all have to take a look and realize that regardless of age or mental stability we all have the same rights. Tracking people is not only a huge violation of privacy, its also a huge hinderance on independence. Independence is something we all have the right to learn, as a child or teenager, and keep, as a senior with memory problems or not.



1 comment:

  1. I completely agree with Sarah. I cannot stand an overprotective parent, parents need to let their child experience the world and grow on their own. I believe that a computer tracker would defeat this purpose. I do not believe it is up to a parent to invade a child's privacy like that. A child should know if it were going to get to this point. It also sickens me to think that a parent would do this to their child.

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