Why US parents say they use tracking apps on their kids’ phones

Parents are using tracking apps to verify that their children are at school or at work, and have not gone missing. — Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash

The ability to occasionally pick up her phone and know exactly where her kids are soothes Wendy Manemeit’s anxieties.

When the Groton resident was a child growing up in Florida, she said three of her schoolmates were kidnapped in separate instances. The incidents and the images of children on the back of milk cartons have stuck with her, she said.