Dear Therapist: I Looked Through My Daughter’s Phone, and I Didn’t Like What I Saw
I thought something was off about one of her new friends—and my suspicions were right.
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Dear Therapist,
We recently moved to a new country and my daughter quickly made some friends who make me uncomfortable. Specifically, there is one boy who used spectacularly sexually explicit language with her in a text, which I find degrading and demeaning.
I found this out because after my daughter came home late from an outing with friends for her birthday, I used that as an excuse to go through her phone, as I’d suspected that there was something off about this boy. To complicate matters, he’s the son
