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Helicopter Moms in Tiger Dresses

April 13, 2011Anne Boysencycles, education, generations, Homeland generation, Millennials, New Silents, parenting

‘Tiger mother’ Amy Chua refuses to let her children go to play dates and sleepovers. She protects them from the evils of TV and computer games. She protects them from a whole world outside of violin practice and top grades. Are these types of parents really the opposites of indulgent Helicopter parents or are they rather the…

Millennials place parenting over marriage

April 12, 2011Anne Boysengenerations, Homeland generation, Millennials, New Silents, parenting

The Millennials are becoming parents – or at least they are preparing for it. And the children they give birth to are the New Silents. A Pew Research cohort study measured attitudes towards marriage and parenting comparing Generation X and the Millennials in 1997 and 2008 respectively. Since 1997 a growing proportion of young adults responded…