Your 14-year-old's friends all have 24/7 GPS sharing with their parents. Your teen says it's normal now. You grew up with none of it.
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The disagreement is about what safety norms mean once they become unanimous. If every parent in the friend group tracks their kid, the family that refuses turns its teen into a visible exception — which has social costs of its own. The choice is between adopting a norm you don't fully endorse and standing apart from a shift you think is wrong.
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Parents who turn it on treat safety norms as ratchets: once the floor moves, you accept the new floor unless you have a strong reason. Parents who refuse treat surveillance norms as the kind of ratchet that needs to be resisted before it locks in — once tracking is normal, the absence of tracking becomes suspect, and 'trust without GPS' stops being a practical option.
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Worth asking yourself
- Are you protecting them or yourself?
- Does silence still count as honesty here?