Helicopter parent

[11] Helicopter parenting is on occasion associated with societal or cultural norms that furnish or standardize themes related to vicariousness.

[12] Tianjin University has been building "love tents" to accommodate parents who have traveled there with their matriculating freshmen, letting them sleep on mats laid out on the gym floor.

Commentators on social media have argued that the one-child policy has been an aggravating factor in the rise of helicopter parenting (see little emperor syndrome).

Similarly, she reminds readers that helicopter parenting is not the product of "bad or pathetic people with deranged values ...

Nancy Gibbs writing for Time magazine described them both as "extreme parenting", although she noted key differences between the two.

Gibbs describes tiger mothers as focused on success in precision-oriented fields such as music and math, while helicopter parents are "obsessed with failure and preventing it at all costs".

[23] University of Georgia professor Richard Mullendore claims the mobile phone is a contributing factor for helicopter parenting.

[6][24] Some parents, for their part, point to rising college tuition costs, saying they are just protecting their investment or acting like any other consumer.

[25] Inter-generational research published in "The Gerontologist" observed educators and popular media lament helicopter parents who hover over their grown children, but reported "complex economic and social demands make it difficult for the Baby Boomers' children to gain a foothold in adulthood".

The description of these mental health problems may be lifelong and its impact is comparable in scale to individuals who have suffered bereavement, according to the University College London.

Another study from the University of Florida found that helicopter parenting was associated with more emotional problems, struggles with decision-making and worse academic performance in a group of 500 students.