The Atlantic: Parenting monitoring tech makes opting out feel like negligence
floguo · x · 2026-11-11
An Atlantic piece by Sarah Zhang examines how parenting surveillance tech — Owlet/Nanit baby monitors, Orchid embryo screening, daycare livestreams, location tracking — creates a new norm: 'it felt like we were irresponsible if we didn't use it.' Cases include college parents tracking kids during sorority rush and messaging group chats when a daughter misses a test. The frictionless phone makes every parental anxiety one tap away, while parents' developmental task of letting go — and their own mental health, subject of a 2024 US surgeon general advisory — gets lost.
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