Well argued and the right time to make the case for the harm that comes from helicopter parenting, with good evidence. This made me laugh though: "If there’s a

Well argued and the right time to make the case for the harm that comes from helicopter parenting, with good evidence. This made me laugh though: "If there’s a predator loose in the neighborhood, your daughter doesn’t get to go to the mall.". Is that because I'm from somewhere that spells it neighbourhood instead of from the US or just because I understand statistics? Do the kinds of people reading an NYT article about raising successful children actually think that "predator on the loose" is a real thing outside of very rare events?