re: The Fragile Generation - Making kids too safe to succeed

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There's plenty of references to the 1980's and this 30-year trend of over regulating child safety.

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Those who were children and teenagers in the 80's were latchkey kids, brought on by social and economic conditions of the 70's and very early 80's. Single parent households rose dramatically as did the number of households where both parents worked. They were the first largely unsupervised generation. They were loners, and the core of Generation X. Their parents were typically older Boomers or war babies.

Backlash against that "neglect" has led to progressivlely worse overparenting by the younger Boomers, Gen X themselves, and now Millennials. It has progressed from excessive concern for physical safety to an extreme sensitivity to protecting feelings. The youngest members of Gen Z might as well spend their childhoods encased in bubble wrap and fairy dust.