The Reverse Phone Lookup - A Parents Friend

Not so long ago the ability to trace someone by their phone number was only available for law inforcement and for private detectives. Even for these people the options were slow and took a great deal of time either from themselves or from friends that they could get to do it for them. Lucky for all of us that is not the case any longer, the reverse lookup by phone number is as easy to use now as getting your email or maybe even easier than that.

At one time the only people that could access the reverse phone directories were the phone companies themselves, so for someone to actually check if a phone number belonged to who they say it did was to call and beg, which did not normally work or hire a private detective which for most parents is neither affordable nor necessary.

Of course that does not mean that you do not wonder if you 15 year old daughter are really talking quietly in her room with her best friend like she said or some new boyfriend. That says nothing about the many ways children meet new people on the internet. With the many online games meant for children and the one on one contact that our children have with some of these people playing these games, all parents must question who they are really talking.

That is where the reverse phone number searches come in. It is so easy to go online to one of many online search places and enter the phone number that you have on your caller id or your cell phone bill. With these reverse phone records you can find out the number your son thinks belongs to a 13 year old boy he plays dragon fable with or a 40 year old man with much worse things in mind. This is not to say that we do not trust our children, however if you were to find out this was the case it would open a new line of conversation concerning safety.

As for the teen age daughter, I trust mine 100 percent and believe that she does tell me the truth; however as a parent I like to double check not only what she is telling me, but what she is being told. Most would say doing a reverse telephone number search is a bit much, and true I have never found any HUGE lie, but I sleep a lot more sound at night knowing that my daughter has actually called to say goodnight from her friend's house and that I could get all the information I need to contact her if there was an emergency while she was with her friend.

This brings up another thing that the reverse unlisted phone lookup is great for, if you are getting prank calls, who is to say that it is just a joke or something more serious. It can be a friend wanting to talk to one of your children without talking to you first, so they hang up when you answer and not when the kids answer. This can be for way to many reasons, however even if the number is unlisted or private you can still trace it. Being carefully is always a good idea and using all the tools we can just makes it easier.

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