Do Teenagers Deserve Privacy and to What Extent

Do teenagers deserve privacy or should parents have access to bedrooms, email addresses, text messages, ect?

I have read the journal.  I have access to and frequently read the emails.  My rule is, do not delete any text messages so that I can read them later when I am sitting under the dryer at the beauty salon.  I monitor computer activity with a software called Tell It PC.  AND I would remove the bedroom door without a moments hesitation.  The right to privacy is theirs when they leave my home. I do not always invade her privacy but if I choose I will do so without guilt or regret.  I take this approach to find out about my child’s life, issues or potential problems. Others might dissagree but I feel it is my responsibility to know what my children have under their beds or in their closets or on their computers. If the parents of the two Columbine boys snooped around their closets maybe they would not have been able to stash their weapons and kills so many innocent children. Maybe by finding marijuana baggies one can prevent a kid from becoming an addict of or distributor of drugs or save a depressed girl’s life from suicide by discovering she is being cyber-bullied by a mySpace hoax .  I actively seek out information that I might not want to know even if it means snooping.  Be mad at me now, but you will love me and thank me for it later.  I can wait.  Better safe than sorry…