To this German parent, it seems that America’s middle class has taken overprotective parenting to a new level, with the government acting as a super nanny.
“Nearly all respondents remember childhoods of nearly unlimited freedom, when they could ride bicycles and wander through woods, streets, parks, unmonitored by their parents,” writes Jeffrey Dill, one of the researchers.
But when it comes to their own children, the same respondents were terrified by the idea of giving them only a fraction of the freedom they once enjoyed.
-As excerpted from The Case for Free-Range Parenting, from the Op-Ed page of the NYT no less.
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