Opinions on parents going through their kids' phones?

I raised my kids aboard a 37' sloop. Not much privacy. By graphic I didn't mean that gynocological. That would have been too much!

@Killers: ikr cringe

@Killers:

lol sorry

@cherokeepatti:

God i hope you never had any children.
Children are not your servants. They are not your property.
They are people.
Just because you have financial control over them doesn't give you the moral right to do whatever, whenever.
Apparently to you, a dependent minor means "a person over whom i deserve unilateral control because i pay for them"

Disgusting. I'd tell you to grow up but apparently you;re already in your sixties, so i guess that ship has sailed

@UnparalleledMonster: Actually being a parent of non majority children not only gives the parent the right it gives the parent the responsibility to keep tabs on their children. What children, yourself included, forget is that parents were once children and they know the dangers involved in being a kid.

@hippyjoe1955:

...sigh...
ACTUALLY joe, i'm not debating that parent should do what they think is right to protect their child.
Haven't been from the start.
I've been pointing out how absurd it is to claim the right on the basis that you paid for their stuff so it's really yours anyway.
A point you appear to be having trouble processing given your borrowed car example.

The right to check up on their child comes from the parent's desire and responsibility to take care of their kid, NOT because they financed their life.

You can claim that a parent should check up on their child for their own good. But it's absurd to make the argument that moral correctness determined by who's paying.

@UncleCharlie: Long story lol

@Jimmyorjames: Do share! :P

@UncleCharlie: Too embarrassing...