There are many pro Big Brother types here who believe in the government running peoples' live.
Monitoring you child like this is the same as saying to them:
I am a lazy parent.
I do not trust you to tell the truth because you are an irresponsible, unaccountable little creature, incapable of making right decisions and for your actions and you cannot tell the truth..
And I do not trust you to tell the truth.
When you are not in the car, you will wear a convict's dog collar so we can track you on foot, because you are a sneaky little bastard who cannot tell the truth.
Ha, reminds me of when I worked for the state juvenile detention center. If only those kids' parents had bothered keeping track of what those little angels were up to.
Sadly, Cobra, sometimes it is just that simple.
In this case they had no reason to trust their daughter, because the girl was lying, continuously about where she was going.
Lazy parent. A lazy parent doesn't give two sh1ts about what their kids are doing or who they hang with or where they go. Would you feel they were more active parents if they actually got in their cars and followed her and busted her on the spot?
You have to learn to discern the difference between legitimate uses of surveillance and illegitimate ones. You don't get to cry 'big brother' when you're really upset you've been caught lying.
But she DID lie to them and gave them further reason not to trust her. Their lack of trust was fully justified, and it'd be my guess that past history started it, otherwise they wouldn't have felt the need to moniter her. Trust needs to be earned; it is not an inalienable right. Sometimes, too, the lack of trust is just because parents have better memories than kids give them credit for.