The Undercover Parent: Should Parents Buy Spyware?

“The Undercover Parent” is an article about the author, Coben, finding out that his friends had installed spyware on their son’s computer to monitor him and coming to the realization that it’s a good precaution. Throughout the article, Coben explains and gives examples of how monitoring your child’s every keystroke is a good thing, and I agree with him. With the spyware, you have unlocked your child’s private world. Coben talks about this, about how this would seem like a breech of privacy--especially

Harlen Coben, editorial,¨Undercover Parent ¨( March 16,2008 ), claims that parents should monitor their teens and what they do on the internet. The author started off being against this idea but, then he sat down at a dinner with his friends whom convinced him otherwise. The author backs up his reasons after his anecdote. The authors purpose of this article is to make sure that parents are doing their best to protect their teens from the dangers of being online, in order to establish total and complete