I'd rather teach my children responsibility and how to be people I (and others) can trust. Monitoring maybe nice in certain situations such as crowded places (disneyland?) but in general it is another side-effect of the mostly unjustified general fear and the wrong thing to do. Just the wrong thing to do.
These features were inevitable. The technology is here and there is a market for it. It is up to the users to decide how much they want to rely on it. As with other things, it doesn't substitute for good parenting.
We will still see though that parents will use this to monitor their children. Instead of allowing the children to go places, we might see them set their children free and track them to make sure they're not in bad places. This is not good parenting. This is lazy parenting.
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