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    Helicopter Parents

    See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7169429.stm

    Apron strings or what - let em fend for themselves FFS
    Do what thou wilt

    #2
    Theres a movie in this somewhere.

    Perhaps a sequel to The 40 Year Old Virgin.

    Who could play the kid?

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      #3
      Dr Paul Redmond claims some parents even contact their sons' or daughters' employers to negotiate pay rises
      Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.

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        But perhaps surprisingly, Dr Redmond says, the offspring of helicopter parents tend to be completely unabashed about their ever-increasing involvement in their affairs.

        "It's a generational thing, Generation Y - those born from the 1980s onwards - have a completely different relationship with their parents from Generation X - those born in between the mid-1960s and the 1980s."

        "Generation X would have been appalled at the idea."
        This is a very pertinent point. It's not just that parents are trying to direct their children's lives, but that the children are quite happy to go along with it. In the olden days you'd avoid pretty much any contact with your parents at all once you got to about 13-years-old. My parents had it incredibly easy I reckon.

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