Whenever a missing child report is broadcast, the question of whether to employ a mobile phone tracker arises in many homes. Protecting your young ones from predators is just one way in which a tracking program can assuage a parent's fear. In recent years, many areas have already been inundated with many natural disasters. When a flood or tornado is threatening your town, school officials will often keep the youngsters at school for his or her safety. However, if the bus has left with your child, a mobile phone tracker can locate the actual position of your child providing you with the chance to meet up the bus and remove your child.

Another exemplory case of a mobile phone tracker providing a security net for your child is once you ask your better half or a friend to pick your child up and you have the ability to verify that the request was met track a cell phone. What could become more frightening for a kid than standing alone waiting for a journey and no-one turns up?

Locator apps are only one of the many applications available in mobile tracking systems. For teenagers who are more probably be posting on social networking sites and receiving text and email messages from unknown people, many programs offer access to review all emails, text messages, photos, and call logs. To be able to check your child's contacts or review the photos or videos on their phone can protect them from getting mixed up with the wrong crowd. These applications can give a parent a heads up if there is inappropriate language or even a stranger trying to lure your child into a secret meeting.

Among the arguments that teenagers often use against the use of a portable tracking is that it's intrusive and shows no respect for private privacy. Protecting your child from poor decisions that bring about STDs, pregnancy or dealing drugs is equally as important as protecting them against strangers. There is no law in the U.S. that prevents parents from spying on their own minor children.

Granted, mobile tracking will not prevent your child from ditching the telephone or losing it nor can it stop a rebellious child from making bad choices. But, adding a tracker to your child's mobile phone is a wonderfully modern solution to watch on your child if you are at the office and reassuring yourself that your child is relatively safe even though they are out of your site.