Parents are starting to "chip" their children. I'll break it down if you don't know what I'm talking about. There are alot of missing kids out there, and parents of those children are frantically searching for them. Well, the idea is to insert a GPS chip into their kids, so that if they were ever missing, kidnapped, or ran away, they can be easily found. Some may say it's a great idea, some might say it could be an invasion of privacy if they want to run away or don't want to be found. Others might say it could be dangerous if the chip malfunctions and can cause brain damage to the child. Do you think it's a good idea? Would you consider doing it to your child, if you have one? Post your opinion.
I'd consider it, but only if you can insert somewhere else...like the shoulder blade or something. But it certainly would create a better peace of mind...unfortunately you just can't be too careful these days.
It's not an invasion of privacy if a parent puts it into their own child, it is their decision. That being said, the child should be allowed to remove if they want once they become and adult.
I would hate to grow up with parents that would consider this. The GPS chip itself isn't all that offensive to me, but I have a feeling any parent that would go through this procedure would be so totally overbearing as to make life miserable. The kids would probably end up being the type to rebel and want to run away.
Man, I'll take absentee, self-indulgent, hypocritical, serial-divorcing Boomer parents over the hyper-neurotic, over-managing Gen-Xers.
They should take this a step further and install remote self-destruction devices into kids. You wouldn't even need to discipline them, you could just threaten to blow 'em up.
Only if the kids could implant GPS chips in their parents so they could know where they were and avoid them at all times.
How else will the parents be able to read their child's mind in the inevitable 2.0 upgrade later? Thoughtcrime is upon us.
RFID tags for everything. We DO NOT want to go there. Better to have surveillance cameras on every building on every complex than to have that. I'm trying to see the practicality of it. Once the kid is gone, the GPS chip tracks their whereabouts better and quicker. But the kid will still be gone. Parents are already putting their kids on leashes and mothers are trying to do the "attachment parenting" never leaving their kids' orbit thing. Every kid already has a cell phone. They complain about obesity in kids, but parents dont WANT to send their kids outside. If a kidnapper finds out the kid is chipped, kid gets KILLED. There was that story of a mom who's son drowned while she went on Twitter for 3 minutes - oh my god GET RID OF TWITTER! Then a child is missing - oh my god WE NEED MORE TECHNOLOGY. They'd just invent GPS blockers anyway. Plus it wouldnt just be for finding kids. It'd be all people with the chip who do something questionable will be tracked down THEMSELVES by police. Parents are already boohooing about circumcisions. Micro-chipping instead? Good gosh...lets all go get barcode identifications right now.
Done I am in favor of it. Would stop a bunch of kidnappers and not have those cases where parents are waiting for their kids to turn up for years but actually they are dead.
There aren't alot of missing kids out there. If you watch Dateline NBC and Nancy Grace all day, you would tend to believe this was a common occurrence. But in reality the chance of your kid getting kidnapped, is probably around the same chance you would get hit by lightning. Much ado about nothing.
I'd imagine that there are at least some parents out there who would be willing to insert chips in their kids to prevent them from ever being hit by lightning. Maybe weslinder.
I think part of all this is partly with women raising kids without men in RECORD numbers. Women whether they're independent, feminist or not, want "security" or assurance. If they can't get it from a man or father figure, they'll want organizations to provide it. Like all those doctor talk shows on TV, full of women who want to manage every threat to their health or loved ones. There's always something "more" they could be doing. Its both men are no good to have as partners. And the no good men are proving they're no good by all the kidnapping and raping they're doing. And all that icky p*rn they watch. Even though rapes have gone down 85% the past 30 years. (Partly due TO p*rn some theorize) http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Porn_up_rape_down_0922.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800610.html It gets tiring all the bombardment of perceived threats. People want to sterilize the world and neuter men. But if you want "efficiency" in human living you'll have to take out all the fun and risk. I guess thats what people want though... And I think women will want GPS on their suspicious husbands, and vice versa. And they'll use GPS to catch their own families in lies about where they are. Anything suspicious? Put a chip on it. You have no choice but to just to go work and come home. Hell people working at home can't go anywhere. Thats why I say people just gotta get used to picking their nose and f***ing on camera.
Stop pulling stuff out your ass. Show me a statistic where kids are hit by lightning a million times a year. I don't think GPS chips embedded into kids a the right way to go about it, but see why some parents are concerned.
I don't like the idea of inserting chips in children. I can see reasons to want to have your child have GPS tracking devices, but children need some freedom. Plus removing a chip later would probably be pretty painful.
FEAR! Some kids aren't allowed to play in their front yard. Now, this will trace them to the closet they are hiding in to escape their screwed up parents? Ridiculous.
