You still can tell if someone is tracking you. I'm not aware that Apple allows in any way for an apple watch or iphone to monitor the location without making the holder aware.

I don’t disagree, but this is not any comfort to the children of tech savvy parents. They’ll be tracked and they’ll know they’re being tracked and they won’t have recourse. AirTags are kind of irrelevant here.

And the problem is? At what point did it become wrong for parents to know where their children are? It's called responsible parenting.

I haven’t stated anything to be a problem; only given the lay of the land.

I guess I misread your intent. Apologies.

I plan on giving my child something they know is a tracker and something else that they don't.

... in both of those cases you can easily turn off tracking at any time.

You can lock the settings.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252651769