Embedding tracking microchips in kids? Brooke Shields weighs in

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Sara McGinnis

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If implanting your children with tracking microchips were possible, would you go for it? Brooke Shields says yes -- and though she laughed through her recent Today interview on the topic I get the feeling she actually means it.

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After hearing about a soccer team in Argentina that is offering season tickets in the form of an implanted microchip, the mother of two ran with the idea.

"I'm not thinking of it in terms of sports as much as I would love to put one in my kids," the 50-year-old explained. "I honestly am not completely against chipping my children."

Although Brooke Shields admitted the idea is "creepy and futuristic," she also pointed out their family dog has one in case it goes missing.

"I thought I would do it in [the kids'] sleep," she went on to say with a laugh. "'Mom, what was that? Oh, I don't know it's a mosquito.'"

"How do you find your children if they somehow get kidnapped?" the mother of Rowan and Grier went on to say. "I like the tracking device. I like a little LoJack on my babies. I want a BabyLo — a baby LoJack."

Is she kidding? I honestly can't quite tell...and I totally understand where her position comes from. On the one hand, you don't want to be the first crazy person that microchip tracks your child, but on the other you wouldn't really mind if it were already done!

As the mother of boys ages 11 and 9, I can admit I'd have to think very long and very hard about if I'd sign up for such a program if it were available. Ideally I'd say no, and have to learn to trust they'll be where they say they're going to be in the coming teen years. I'd respect it's totally creepy to implant a human with a tracking chip and somehow survive through their adolescence as parents have made it through for eons up until now.

But I also see those stories pop up on the news. Even though I try my hardest to avoid them, the kind of stories that make your stomach quiver still pop on my radar. A child has been abducted from this town and a tween has gone missing from the other. It's terrible painful to watch and imagine what the parents must be going through -- so would I really turn down the opportunity to know where my boys are all the time just in case?

I honestly don't know.

If it were possible to implant tracking in your child, would you choose to? Why or why not?

Tell us!

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