Helicopter Parenting Sociology

Every parents main goal in life is to be able to give their children everything they need to be successful in their lives. Are they becoming to overprotective? Or are they doing what needs to be done to ensure their children’s lives are headed in the right path? Some say, “how do we know these declining crime statistics aren’t a result of so many parents hanging around the playground with their kids? Maybe our paranoid helicoptering has, in part, ushered in this “safer world”” (Jane). Statistics have shown that murders are down 36% for children 14 and younger and 60% for children ages 14-17. In 1981, Adam Walsh was kidnapped, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was founded as a result of the activism of his father and
Some believe that “[parents] typically take too much responsibility for their children’s experiences and, specifically, their success or failures” (Bayless). Psychologists have begun to notice that their young clients “are coming to terms with what it was like to be raised by a helicopter parent, and how their ability to launch into adulthood may have been stunted” (Almendrala). Not only are the young adults beginning to see the side effects themselves, but they are not able to take responsivity for their own mistakes and actions, and blame everything onto their parents. This kind of behavior is very common when young adults of strict parents come to terms with something they have done wrong, “they don’t have to wait for their parents to change before they do” (Almendrala). Yet the young adults are not all to blame, they need to begin to change their ways so that they can break the
Research may form people to one side or the other, but never will this issue be seen as right or wrong. There are too many people involved and too many parts to this puzzle to be able to make one decision. Helicopter parenting has become so controversial and such a concern to many parents or soon to be parents. When parents hear of the things they must protect their child from and all of the things their child must accomplish in their lifetime, this way of parenting looks like the best option to them; other will think that it is absurd to not let their child experience life to the fullest. Every child is unique in their own way and not every child will be able to conform to one specific type of parenting; this is another reason that this parenting style will remain controversial. To be or not to be, that is the question to ask when it comes to your child and their specific