An interesting theory that I hadn't seen before
What Really Scares Helicopter ParentsMany teenagers -- and I include myself at that age -- do not quite have the emotional maturity and long-term planning skills for the high-stakes economic competition they find themselves engaged in. So their parents intervene, managing their lives so intensely that their child doesn’t have much opportunity to, well, act like a child instead of a miniature middle-aged accountant. Since the professional class can’t pass down its credentials, it passes down its ability to navigate the educational system that produces the credentials.
Add to that the shrinking-middle-class problem and widespread economic uncertainty, and suddenly it looks like rational behavior.
Which is, of course, framed in the press largely as a pathology of women/mothers...
