This thread is going to be split right down the middle by age, I can already tell. 
If you would have asked me this question when I was a teenager, the answer would have been "NO!" Now that I have a teenager, the answer is "Absolutely!"
I agree with Catland and Richard ... parents "snoop" because we worry and care and want what is best for our kids. Parents who don't care what happens probably don't even think of "snooping."
My son can go right ahead and be mad at me now for "snooping." I don't care. It's not my job to be his buddy, it's my job to be his parent. When he grows up he will understand, thank me, and "snoop" through his kids' stuff, too.
Such is the circle of life ...
And remember the kid from the Columbine Highshcool shooting? All kinds of horrible, disturbing things were found in his room after the fact - things that ANYone would have been VERY concerned about. His parents had NO clue, because they "gave him his privacy."
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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