‘Intensive’ Parenting Is Now the Norm in America
The style of child-rearing that most aspire to takes a lot of time and money, and many families can’t pull it off.
by Joe Pinsker
Jan 16, 2019
3 minutes
Supervised, enriching playtime. Frequent conversations about thoughts and feelings. Patient, well-reasoned explanations of household rules. And extracurriculars. Lots and lots of extracurriculars.
These are the oft-stereotyped hallmarks of a parenting style that has been common in upper-middle-class households for at least a generation. But according to , this child-rearing philosophy now has a much broader appeal, one that holds across race and class. The survey, which polled roughly 3,600 parents of children ages 8 to 10 who were demographically and economically representative of the national population, found evidence that
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