Is it right for mothers to read their daughter's diary?

[bikinichick]

My friend complained to me that her mom read her diary and discovered several bad things about her.(smoking, cutting classes, worse, premarital sex, boys). She said they ended up fighting. Her mom's argument was she was a mother so has the right everything about her. Its a good thing daw na she find out everything before its too late. While my friend's argument was she intruded her privacy. I dont know what to say because I myself was against her bad habits but I can't do anything about her. I'm against naman for what her mom did. If that happens to me, ewan ko:confused:

Please post your opinion:~(

[Free Agent]

No, because that's personal and private property.

[BabyFATS]

I think it's not right.
We're all entitled to our privacy and personal space. If her mom wanted to find out what her daughter was doing, she should have consulted her daughter's friends. Of course there's a chance that her friends would lie for her but if she (the mom) explained that she's after her daughter's safety, I think the friends would understand and know what to do.

By the way, this happened to me too, but it was my aunt who did it. :grrr:
I completely lost my "amor" for her. :angry:

[*keyah*]

No - not at all. My Mom read my diary before. She reasoned that pakalat-kalat raw kasi. Actually, it was just in my stuff. She cleaned my room kasi eh. Since then, I had doubts starting one again.

Diaries are personal stuff. They're for the owner's eyes and hers alone.

:down:

[cmars2]

NO!
Though di binasa ng mom ko yung diary ko, lucky me.:) Pero yung mga bros ko naman ang sige basa!:bash: Ngayon. I don't have a diary anymore, mahirap na... Yung mga previous diaries ko naman eh sinunog ko na before ako umalis ng bahay. :D

[Sacrosanct]

mothers who do that are b¡tches

[the_FLY]

No...it's an invasion of one's privacy...even though she's the mother...she has no right to invade her daughter's privacy...each person has his/her own individuality!

:fork_off:

[mya]

noway! it isnt right!!

[RalphLauren18]

Just to give you guys suggestion:

Try Online Diary, so that you could put password on it or download some Diay softwares or with it using MS Word and protect it with password.

In that case, she won't be able to read it because you're the only one who knows the password.

Hope this helps. Make this story as a lesson.

In my case, I guess parents have no right to touch our things even if they're the one who bought it. :king:

[s0uL]

i have my diary na ordinary notebook lang...naka-halo sa mga ordinary notebooks ko kaya hindi nila pina-pansin...

ganun naman dapat e...dapat yung diary mo hindi nakakakuha ng attention para hindi nakaka-tempting basahin ng iba...

ahehe may on-line diary din ako...

alam ko naman kasi na hindi marunong mag-internet parents ko e...

kung gusto nyo basahin nyo pa e...tutal hindi nyo naman ako kilala...;)

http://www.soul-diary.cjb.net

[SwEeT_cHiNiTa]

its not OK! i hate it when moms are like that. they dont give their children enough privacy. pag ganyan mom ko, pakiramdam ko ndi nya ako trust at may ginagawa akong kabulastugan!

[11# UST_guard'98]

My mom used to read my diary when I was freshaman high school.

Dati kasi I was taking MILO class. E h may crush na crush akong coach doon. Kaya pala lagi akong pinapayagan ng mom ko na umalis ng maaga para makita ko yon crush ko and para mabasa nyia diary ko...... :D I was so embarass kasi asawa tawag ko doon sa diary ko sa crush ko.

[thehitman]

I'm not a girl, but I think it's wrong for a mother to read her daughter's diary. Like everyone else has said, it is an invasion of privacy. Not even mothers (and fathers, for that matter) can claim authority over our lives. They can guide and direct, but they cannot control.

[sea sprite]

of course it's wrong.

my mom is so nosey! she goes through everything from diaries to letters to receipts. it's not that she doesn't trust me, she's just really chismosa. buti na lang we have a pretty good relationship and i really don't have anything to hide (good girl kuno).

but i still feel violated when she goes through my private stuff (sino ba namang hindi? imagine your mom wading through pages of your analysis on whether you should break up with your bf or not AND remarking to you at the dinner table: "i think you're right. if he doesn't do the little things then he's not worth staying with" -- que horror!). now i just type my thoughts down and put passwords on them.

what your friend's mom did was wrong. kung mga illegally obtained evidence nga di admissible sa court, diary entries pa kaya?

[DELISYUS]

i don't believe in invasion of privacy.......

then again.......sometimes, such intrusions could have been helpful......

imagine....one of our former clients was feeling depressed with her family. She was just so lonely and she turned to us (NGO) for support.....

When we had to close shop for the holidays (Dec.31-Jan. 2)...the girl was not able to stand her thoughts....She broke....and it took her parents 3 days before they realized she was dead.

Her sister called us up to inform us.

And i cannot help but think, her Mom read her diary too late.

[mulan_rushdiary]

depends if you treat your mother as your bestfriend well i guess i dont see anything wrong with that.:D

[mhai]

NOPE!! coz itz private.

[~yuiren~]

Nope...it's private. I wouldn't want my Mom to do that to me. I'll be totally mad at her if she does. Good thing she's not here...:wink:

[mvergara]

NOPE! Kahit pa anak siya, every person has a right to privacy. Siguro unless na lang kung yung anak trusted yung mother. but the point is, ang diary - personal property yan e. Kaya ako, di na ko nag-da-diary kasi makulit nanay ko e! tulad nung sabi ni SwEeT_cHiNiTa, that indicates na hindi trusted ng mom yung anak.