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If this article is accurate (data source looks shady and lacking statistical significance) I believe it. I think for me, the main thing that would explain the i
by nhumrich 9y ago
If this article is accurate (data source looks shady and lacking statistical significance) I believe it. I think for me, the main thing that would explain the increase is that you now have to watch your kid. What I mean is, when my parents were growing up, they would just wander the streets, hang out with other kids, and generally raise themselves. But now in days (at least in US) parent supervision is required for just about everything, and parents are afraid to let kids just go and wander (for good reasons).
- balabaster 9y agoNo more good reasons than historically. The media is to blame for much of the hysteria around what we should be doing as parents. I would've gone out of my mind as a kid if I was raised the way parents are expected to inject themselves into every facet of their kids lives. I need my space, even when I'm in a relationship I don't want anyone injecting themselves in my space. Not my parents, not my partner, not my kids, nobody. If you never make your kids deal with being unsupervised and alone for periods, they will never be able to be alone, which will make them dependent on spouses and partners constantly for their emotional well-being. That is unhealthy for themselves and their partners. Obviously we can't know the consequences of society's overbearing and overzealous parenting "rules" until our kids become adults, but mark my words, they will come back to bite our kids in the asses if we don't give our kids room to breathe.