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user-inactivated  ·  3429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Helicopter parenting is increasingly correlated with college-age depression and anxiety.

Latchkey kids can develop crippling (in terms of day to day functioning) depression and anxiety as well. This article might be mistaking correlation for causation.





caeli  ·  3429 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, as always these things come in many shades of grey. It's possible that the other extreme (e.g., latchkey kids) have similar problems but it seems like they just distinguished between helicopter and non-helicopter parents.