Anti-social socialization of the middle class?

Intensive parenting as a childrearing strategy and practice has gained territory in families of the Western world recent decades its ideologies have infiltrated popular culture social policies. It received an unprecedented amount journalistic well academic attention. Nevertheless, little do we know about how these practices underlying are shaping generations children who experiencing them (see, e.g., Schiffrin et al., 2014; Yerkes, 2021). We even less how, consequence, intensive may influence societies shall later inhabit adults. Nancy McDermott’s The Problem with Parenting teases apart that form characteristic pattern she refers to ‘Parenting’, capital P. author traces they emerged response subsequent turning points development American (middle-class) family become woven into fabric late twentieth early twenty-first century (and middle-, upper-middle class) society.