When I was a teenager, both sets of my parents read mine. I come from a divorced background. I can appreciate your concern. It was in many ways, a most traumatic event. As anyone can imagine.

One thing, I tend to do, is destroy old journals. I keep, certain pages, from those, in a file cabinet, that I can lock. I'm not, at a point, of worrying about my handwritten journals being read, not at this point in my life. My computer, requires a password to get into my account, where anything I keep on it, is. And the one I have on my phone, also, has a password.

I've been journaling on an off, mainly on, for 30 years.