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Dear LFTP February 22, 2016 · 54:38 · 6 min

Dear LFTP: parents tracking a 26-year-old's phone

  • How can I deal with my parents requiring a location-tracking app to stay on the family phone plan?

A 26-year-old grad student in Boston asks how to handle his parents, who keep him on the family phone plan only if he installs a location-tracking app, with the real friction coming on visits home to Georgia when borrowing the car exposes his movements. The hosts say the parents are being unreasonable but the terms are the terms: accept the tracker or get his own plan. They riff on how little privacy an adult needs ('if he's living with integrity'), debate whether the son is hiding something, and read the secular answer, which sides with the parents treating him like a child and suggests a prepaid phone.

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