Ooooo gosh harsh words, funny that considering I'm from a middle class, well off family, I went to public school (which I guess is what you call a private school?) and I'm at a top university in the UK studying arabic. Now when offending someones background you usually draw aspects of your own that you can relate to it - so its easier to think on the spot and offend someone quickly - you talk about not knowing a father, your mother being a ***** and abortion and domestic violence.... So I'm guessing your some white trash red-neck piece of shit from a broken family or whatever, or your from some god awful lower middleclass family and went to some shit hole community college and you now think your sigmund freud. I know my Father, he sent me to a £12,000 a year school - what the **** has yours ever done you worthless low lying ****?

I'm not whats wrong with America because I'm not an american YOUR whats wrong with america because you assume everyone is because "Gawd bless' the USA"

Yes it is a really bad way of going about showing their concern but I think that in some situations, most likely not this one, where the child may be doing something really dangerous or so depressed they are considering suicide it is the responsibility of the parent to do what ever is in their power to help. If that were the case and they were able to find this out because of the invasion of privacy I would hope that after the child were better and not suffering they would at least understand why their parents did something like going through their diary. Also on that note I would hope that if a parent suspected something was wrong, found and read said diary but then discovered they were mistaken they would have enough sense not to ever tell the child they had read the diary. Yes the privacy would still have been invaded but hopefully the child wouldn't find out about it and lose faith in their parents. It is a double edged sword with parenting, there are so many things that you can do that to you seem like you're just looking out for your kids but to the kid you are just being overprotective. It is a very thin line that parents and their children teeter on, and sadly it is one that is very often crossed in a negative and hurtful way. I sincerely hope that if you ever have children of your own this isn't something you have to deal with, not because I don't believe you'd handle it appropriately but because it is always a difficult situation.