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Should Parents Spy On Their Children's Emails And Texts Summary

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Assignment2: Counter-Argument outline I. Introduction: A. Rhetorical questions: - but where do the boundaries lie between safeguarding and surveillance? -to snoop, or not to snoop? B. .Name of writer: Judith Woods C. Name of article: Should Parents Spy on Their Children’s Emails and Texts? D. Central claim: parents should spy on and monitor their children’s texts and emails. E. Summary of major ideas: -all teenagers want their privacy to be respected and not to be Spied on. -if parents get caught while spying on their children’s emails …show more content…

False assumption: A. First false assumption: Claire Perry suggests curtailing online activity late at night by unplugging the internet router; moreover, she says that teenagers have no right to keep their messages private and that parents ought to feel empowered enough to demand access to them. I believe that this is a huge mistake because children would feel dominated by their parents without any sense of freedom. Evidence: According to a parenting editor at Common Sense Media Caroline Knorr, who was mentioned in the article “should parents snoop on their kids online?” by Eleine augenbraun from BBC News, parents need to recognize that kids believe that phones are sacred and private; to her, parents who try to intrude on that are setting up a “parents versus kid situation, even for good kids who aren’t doing anything wrong.” B. Second false assumption: According to a friend of the article’s writer Judith woods, he had a child who was using chat room despite being forbidden from doing so, “ the computer was in a family area, and in one evening when I walked in, I noticed my daughter, who was then 13, scrambling to shut down the site that she had been looking at,” he says “ I forced her to put it back on screen and discovered she’d been suing a chat room and had been getting deeply inappropriate messages from a man with unthinkably crude

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