They need you to fear things, so they can get rich from it! I have said this for years now.
09/06/2011
There seems to be a high-tech device to help moms and dads deal with just about every fear they have
Parents live every day with the fear that something could happen to their children — and a multibillion-dollar security industry has grown to give them ways to keep their nightmares in check. From baby monitoring to computer spyware to home drug tests, worried moms and dads now have many, many ways to check up on their kids at any time of the day or night. Here, a look at the protective parent market, by the numbers:
$3 - Cost of a home kit to test for a single drug; kits that test for 10 substances sell for $19.95
$30 - Price of a basic baby monitor
$279 - Price of a high-end baby monitor with audio and video
$200 - Approximate price of a GPS tracker that doubles as a digital children's watch, sold by BrickHouse Security
3.5 - Number of "hyper-texters" — teens who send more than 120 text messages per day — who have had sex for every non-hyper-texting teen who is sexually active
20 - Percentage of high school students who qualified as hyper-texters in a recent Cleveland study
$5 - Monthly fee for SafeText, a system that lets parents monitor their children's text messaging
$100 to $150 - Range of prices, per year, for systems such as Mobile Spy and MobiStealth, which can monitor smartphones using Google's Android operating system
72 - Percentage of parents who monitor their kids' activity online
$99 - Price of Spector PRO and eBlaster software for monitoring online chats, instant messages, and emails
80 - Percentage of teens who use privacy settings to hide some of their online activities from their parents or friends
8 - Percentage of teens who say they accept all social-networking friend requests they receive from people they don't know
