[Search4Truth]

No your kids wont hate you, they will just mistrust you, which is worse. And that trust is not easily rebuilt. Don't be surprised when they start acting the same way.
Perhaps being more involved in our kid's lives would be a better solution than rummaging through their personal affects and violating their trust. What kind of lesson is that teaching them; That the end justifies the means or that two wrongs make a right?

My son trusts me. And I would never violate that trust.

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah I know, I know. Let me give you a good dose of reality. When my 13 year old daughter was giving us trouble, I used my scanner to monitor her phone calls. We had a cordless phone and I could pick them up. During one of them she discussed suicide with one of her best girl friends. This best girl friend had a mom who allowed eighteen to 21 year old men to come over and mess around with her 13 year old at their home. My daughter got off the phone and asked if she could go over to her girl friend's home. As a matter of fact she did tell me she hated me when I said no. BFD. She's alive today and lives a pretty good life.

[CherCee]

The mom didn’t rummage through her daughter’s personal effects. She rummaged through Jonathan Carr’s when she got suspicious. And it’s a good thing she did.