Overparent

I think we have a tendency today to overparent, micromanage, and underappreciate our adolescents.

When you overparent, you weaken your child's self-image, suffocating her so that your child comes to believe, I guess I don't have what it takes to get by without Dad's and Mom's help.

Both restrictive and indulgent parents can either underparent or overparent.

Slum children will be provided the assurance of this " overparent " as a guarantee against the underfed, vermin-infested children found in the London schools inspected at the outset of the century.

If Father is the typical male underparent, as he generally is, it is not that he is a failure, except by overparent standards.

In order to cushion the blow of this disillusionment they ascribe the power and perfection they once believed a parent had to an overparent, a divine being.

Is it conceivable that American mothers and fathers will tamely submit to turning over their sons and daughters to Miss Grace Abbott as an over-parent?

To quote directly, not from his article in THE INDEPENDENT but from one published in the New York Herald on November 4th: “Socialism says boldly the State is the overparent, the outer-parent.

The principle as to adult criminals, though new in application is not new as a principle. It is a power of the State technically known as parens patriae—the overparent as it were— dealing considerately and helpfully with certain of its citizens as its wards to be cared for, aided, assisted, helped, etc.

“Only the law of self-preservation will force the state, against the opposition of the mere makers of money, to become the overparent of all its people." writes Judge Ben B. Lindsey in the Newer Justice for January.

Like Dewey's "renascent liberalism," in 1911 L. T. Hobhouse's "constructive liberalism" prescribed that the state be an "overparent":