Is geo-tracking your child the new “helicopter parenting”?

Photo credit: Jesús Rodríguez / Unsplash. Article by Yann Bruna. Big Think – December 5, 2022. Article originally published in The Conversation on November 24, 2022. 

Geo-tracking apps such as Find My Kids, Google Family Link and Apple’s FindMy are fast growing in popularity, handing parents unprecedented powers to monitor their offspring. But how are the latter experiencing what previous generations might have labelled as an intrusion into their privacy? Could these devices even hurt youths’ sense of independence? We set out to answer these questions and more in our research project […]

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