" Harry, your father loves you," a loving father says to his son, who refuses to communicate with him, in the short story "My Son the Murder". Harry is depressed about the war and being drafted, yet decides not to confide in his father and he deals with these feelings by means of being isolated from the world. Privacy is something that all teenagers need to a certain extent. In today's world, being a parent brings upon certain responsibilities that need to be accomplished in order to ensure the protection and happiness of their children. Most teenagers get "infuriated" when their parents intrude on their lives and on their privacy, but some teens do realize that this is done out of love and to communicate. Parents should intrude on their teenager's privacy when they realize that their teenager is behaving in a depressive or angry manner, or simply just as a gesture of love when there is suspicion of a problem in their adolescent's life. As a result, privacy is violated to steer their teenager's life in the right direction. Although some adolescents believe that their privacy should be respected, most parents should intrude on their privacy in order to make sure that everything is running smoothly in their lives.
Many adolescents believe there is a lack of trust involved with their parents when privacy is violated, however, this "despicable" act wouldn't happen if there weren't enough evidence present to investigate. Allow me to elaborate with an example in the short story "My Son the Murderer," written by Bernard Malamud. This story is about a distant father and son relationship, which is based on silence. The father, Leo, considers his son, Harry, to be a stranger in his own house because of his private nature. Harry begins to show that something is wrong by either being disrespectful to his father or by showing his depression on the subject of the war and the draft. " Sometimes I lean over and touch the war with the flat of my hand.