This pitfall is easily avoided by not getting them. Getting a kid is a huuuuuge scam.

Why hasn’t Marie done any work today?

Oh, she’s white knuckling a baby monitor to see if she can trust the babysitter

When a parent is anxious about the child enough to install a bloody tracking app. The parents is giving the data about the child to the criminals.

That sounds unlikely and more paranoid than the parents who would install those apps… How many criminals are going to data brokers to track their child targets?