Parents face hurdles in unfreezing children’s credit as they reach adulthood [Video]

Raising kids today involves keeping them safe from all kinds of potential danger, including identity theft. With so many data breaches over the last decade, many parents have chosen to freeze their children’s credit.”They started to become active online,” said Jenn Ivancic, a mother of two boys. “I just didn’t want them to accidentally overshare details that could end up compromising their credit.”About five years ago, Ivancic decided to freeze her children’s credit to block anyone, including the boys themselves, from opening an account in their names.”Somebody could steal their identity,” Ivancic said. “I just didn’t want them to run that risk without knowing, so I thought it was a good idea to freeze their credit and simply thought it would be an easy thing to reverse.”But she was wrong.With her oldest son, Jack, now headed to college in North Carolina, Ivancic hoped to get him his own credit card. …