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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's really about the expectations for parenting.  You can't have kids and keep living your pre-kids life without being branded a bad parent.  As soon as you have kids, your life becomes kid-centric with playgroups, music classes, sports practices, and on and on.  If you aren't interested in this shift, then you don't have kids.  In prior generations, people just ignored their kids and went on with their adult lives.[/quote]

You have to go pretty far back for that. My boomer parents (and many others) experienced this same shift. In fact many boomers were extremely helicopter-ey IME (not mine, but many of my friends' parents).[/quote]
My millennial husband was raised by Boomer parents who were very hands off.  Many 80s kids were latchkey kids--that was super common.

My husband's childhood consisted of coming home alone after school to play on railroad tracks, ride his bike around town and blow things up with his dad's gun powder.  None of that would ever be possible in Arlington.

There's been a big shift since the 80s in parenting expectations.[/quote]

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