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The lengthening path to adulthood appears exacerbated (恶化) by parental involvement in the college years.

Given the rising investment in college education, parental concern is not surprising, but learning where and when to intervene (干预 ) will help students take more ownership of the outcomes of these increasingly costly educations

Parental anxieties reflect their circumstances.

Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice—though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.

The U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support, according to a 2007 study.

Family-friendly policies are its norm-with 16months of paid parental leave,special protections for part-time workers,and state-subsidized preschools where,according to a government website,"gender-awareness education is increasingly common.

Generous parental leave policies and readily available part-time options have unintended consequences:instead of strengthening women's attachment to the workplace,they appear to weaken it

He is far less likely to take a year of parental leave and then return on a reduced work schedule for the next eight years.

Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)—a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year's Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).

The college admission essay contains the grandest American themes―status anxiety, parental piety (孝顺), intellectual standards—and so it is only a matter of time before it becomes infected by the country's culture of excessive concern with self-esteem

As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, justifying parental support depends on defining the family as a social good that, in some sense, society must pay for.

In fact, by some estimates, the value of parental investments in children, investments of time and money (including lost wages), is equal to 20-30% of gross domestic product

What is Professor Anne Alstott's argument for parental support?

Steinberg pointed out that parental sharing on social media helps build communities, connect spread-out families, provide support and raise awareness around important social issues for which parents might be their children's only voice.

But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.

For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.

However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their "adult" children.

In general, about 20% of parental involvement was positive, about 45% negative and the rest statistically insignificant.

Now, the new study has shown that if they were paid for their parental labours, they would earn as much as￡172, 000 a year.

Parental involvement is not so beneficial as expected.

Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks.

The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago.

The writer believes that technology explains greater parental involvement with their children.