How should I say this? I think they can. It depends on the age of the child. For parents with adolescents, it’s ok because parents should have the right to supervise their kids. You know, adolescents lack the ability to tell right from wrong. So, the right to privacy is beside the point. I don’t think they have the right to do so because every one has their own private things. For kids my age, there’s no way parents should read text messages and e-mails without my permission. Parents should communicate with children properly.

A number of China’s local governments are passing a new law that’s being praised by children’s rights societies for protecting their privacy. But some say it goes too far. In this parent-v-child battle, the law is telling parents to back off. BON’S Susan Tart has more on the law that restricts parents from getting the inside scoop on their kid’ lives.

How should I say this? I think they can. It depends on the age of the child. For parents with adolescents, it’s ok because parents should have the right to supervise their kids. You know, adolescents lack the ability to tell right from wrong. So, the right to privacy is beside the point.

I don’t think they have the right to do so because every one has their own private things. For kids my age, there’s no way parents should read text messages and e-mails without my permission. Parents should communicate with children properly.

So exactly what is different about this 90s generation and how they feel about life? As Tom Spender mentions in his report this is the first generation to go up, virtually from birth, with the internet as part of their lives. And in a society where respect for elders and parents plays a hugely important role, that’s exactly where they go to express their frustrations about their relations with their parents and life in general.

For Chinese parents - most with just one child - there are plenty of decisions to make about how to spend money on their offspring. And recently more of that money has been going on children's books. As BON's Tony Zhou reports prices for these have been on the rise; and now fewer parents can justify paying so much money for a product that doesn't seem worth it.

How far would you go to save your child's life? It's a question that might leave non-parents feeling a little on the spot. But parents everywhere know exactly how they would answer: a parent will do anything and everything it takes to save their child. That's exactly what's brought one American mother from her family's home in California all the way to the other side of the world, to China. Her trip is a last ditch attempt to save her daughter's life, in the form of an extraordinary appeal for help to every one of China's 1.3 billion citizens.

Recently, BON’s Tony Zhou brought us the story of a few children in Hangzhou. They had taken the train nearly 50 hours so they could spend the summer with their parents. Now he follows up with how these so-called “little migrant birds” are dealing with the big city.