Wired:

There are any number of reasons why monitoring your kid’s phone makes sense. These range from the relatively benign (they could be cheating on their homework) to the severe (they could be texting a drug dealer). Cyberbullying is a particular concern, and it’s a veritable epidemic; 42 percent of children say they’ve been bullied online, according to i-Safe, and 35 percent have been actively threatened. Of those kids, 58 percent never tell their parents.

Nevertheless, am I a bad person to be so suspicious of my pride and joy? Am I guilty of—shudder—invading my children’s privacy?

While this may be a (minor) ethical dilemma for many parents and a conversation I enjoy having with other parents to see where they draw the line, I maintain that up to a certain age, “Children have zero expectation of or right to privacy from their parents.” Or, as my mother would have put it if she had children today, “My house. My rules.”