A parent scared of letting their
child(
ren) out of their sight to travel to/from a neighborhood park, friend's house, community pool or walk to
school for fear of being reported to Child Protective Services (CPS), or their
child(ren) being picked up (abducted) by the
police and delivered to CPS. These parents would normally be fine with letting their children be unsupervised for such excursions, but have been closely monitoring the news of the couple in Maryland who have had ideological clashes with CPS and by extension, the
police. This case has sparked a national debate as to whether these parents actually neglected their children in any way, and further, how helicopter parenting has raised a generation of helpless children to adulthood (millennials) who now expect the government and society to protect and coddle them, and who are in turn projecting these values onto modern GenX parents.
