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.
