> If you want to go a level deeper and ask why this political shift has occurred, it's likely that one contributing factor is urbanization which been underway i

> If you want to go a level deeper and ask why this political shift has occurred, it's likely that one contributing factor is urbanization which been underway in the US for some time He was saying America has become more progressive because of urbanization, not that urbanization directly caused the intense scrutiny on child rearing. However I am left in want about what makes the US different than other places with regard to child rearing, even though I largely agree with the points above (though I might include authoritarianism with progressivism).