More parents hiring PIs to spy on teens

The Straits Times-Home, Feb6 2006 Mon

This year, the number of parents hiring PIs to spy on their children has increased by a significant number. I am quite surprised to learn that there are so many parents out there who are suspicious of the company their children hang out with and the things they do, that they even have to resort to spying on them. I am quite shock to learn of some of the things that PIs find out about teens, some of them are actually prostituting themselves in order to earn extra pocket money for their spending. It really saddens me knowing that there are such people who do not treasure their bodies and are willing to sell it just to satisfy their material wants, i really look down on such people as they do have a choice in doing what they do.
Personally i think that parents hiring PIs has it advantages and disadvantages. In this present, modern day and time, privacy is the most important thing to a teenager, and i do believe that teens deserve to have their own personal space and we should respect that.Therefore if the teen finds out that his parents have been spying on him, it will break the trust the teen had in his parents and strain the relationship between them. However hiring PIs has its advantages too. By hiring PIs, parents will be able to monitor their child's movement outside the house and see what he is up too. If the child is mixing with bad company, the parents will be able to interfere quickly and try to bring their child back on the right path before he is influenced by them.
This article on parents hiring PIs to spy on teens greatly highlights the issue of communication problems between parents and children. Nowadays more and more teens do not confide in their parents and keep matters to themselves, leaving the worried parents clueless about their childrens' lifestyles, thus they resort to spying to find out more about their children.
I believe that communication problems between parents and children is a serious issue and that we should all try to address this problem. By doing so, parents will be able to interact better with teens and also understand them better, and need not resort to hiring PIs to spy on them anymore. This way both parties will be happy as i believe that parents themselves do not wish to have to spy on their own children, while the children will enjoy their new found privacy.