Today’s Tweens Have Less Independence from Parental 'Helicoptering'

They grew up as part of the latchkey generation, left largely unsupervised in the hours after school. Now, a large segment of Gen X parents consider child care a necessity, not only for very young kids but well into the teen years.

Late Millennials and Gen Z kids have been more supervised as middle-schoolers than Gen X kids were; Gen Alpha kids are following the same pattern, according to The Washington Post’s analysis of census data.

"It does feel strange to me that so many parents of kids 10 and older are using so much care," said Lynn Perkins, CEO of the babysitter-finding site UrbanSitter.

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