Originally Posted by MegMeg
Originally Posted by JonLaw
That's because there's no generation gap in the sense of different cultural ideas, since everything is post-1960's.
I suspect it has more to do with changes in our ideas about parenting. People have warmer relationships with their children than they did a few generations ago. Less yelling, more playing. And more sheer time spent with the kids. It's easy to dump on this as overprotectiveness, but it also signals that you just like having your kids around.

There also aren't groups of kids wandering around the neighborhoods.