If You Respect Their Privacy Too Much, You Risk Being a Good Parent

In addition to the embarrassment of placing one of the government's anti-drug ads right next to a story about the failure of the government's anti-drug ads, there is the embarrassment of the headline on the ad: "It's a fine line between respecting your teen's privacy and doing your job as a parent." I think what the Office of National Drug Control Policy meant was, "It's a fine line between respecting your teen's privacy and failing to do your job as a parent." As it is, the government is suggesting that the less you know about what's going on in your children's lives, the better.