Which generation is/was more likely to be "soccer moms"?

[darklordoftech]

Which generation restricts their kids more?

[courts]

they're both baby boomers

[darklordoftech]

they're both baby boomers

I'd say there's a big generational difference between turning 18 the year of the Gulf of Tonkin incident and turning 18 the year of the Iran Hostage Crisis. One turned 18 before race riots, hippies, war protests, Roe v. Wade, etc., the other attended high schools that gave students a smoking area.

[Stranger in a strange land]

That's not what a soccer mom is, but to answer your question, parenting became extremely over-protective after Columbine and 9/11.  Though families getting smaller has played a role as well.

I'm in my 30s so I have some perspective on this, having grown up mostly in the 90s and having friends from HS and college who are having kids now. Things had been trending in the direction of more protection and involvement throughout the 80s and 90s as a result of the over-correction to restrictive 50s style parenting that had happened in the late 60s/early 70s (you never hear about latchkey kids and free range parenting anymore, and it wouldn't make sense to have a PSA campaign along the lines of "do you know where your children are?" nowadays because kids are either at home playing with their phones, on their computers, or at school). King of the Hill was ostensibly set in the 90s/00s when the show was made, but the childhood that Bobby and Joseph experienced (having tons of free time and always being out on their bikes exploring the neighborhood) was much more typical of the 70s, when creator Mike Judge was a teenager.

[darklordoftech]

It seems to me that parents used to defend their kids against schools that wrongly suspended them, but now parents accept the school's word and assume that their kids are lying.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

That's not what a soccer mom is, but to answer your question, parenting became extremely over-protective after Columbine and 9/11.  Though families getting smaller has played a role as well.

I'm in my 30s so I have some perspective on this, having grown up mostly in the 90s and having friends from HS and college who are having kids now. Things had been trending in the direction of more protection and involvement throughout the 80s and 90s as a result of the over-correction to restrictive 50s style parenting that had happened in the late 60s/early 70s (you never hear about latchkey kids and free range parenting anymore, and it wouldn't make sense to have a PSA campaign along the lines of "do you know where your children are?" nowadays because kids are either at home playing with their phones, on their computers, or at school). King of the Hill was ostensibly set in the 90s/00s when the show was made, but the childhood that Bobby and Joseph experienced (having tons of free time and always being out on their bikes exploring the neighborhood) was much more typical of the 70s, when creator Mike Judge was a teenager.

As someone on the millenial/Gen Z borderline (I'm 22), I noticed a similar dynamic growing up in which many children's cartoons/shows - such as Arthur and Fairly Oddparents - showed elementary schoolers with less parental supervision/restrictions than many high schoolers today.  Makes sense given that the writers of these shows were depicting their childhood more than what things were like for the generation watching.  Interestingly, I remember reading an old psychology book which had mentioned that parents in the '50s were distinguished from parents in the '60s/'70s by being much more restrictive about where kids/teens' freedom of movement outside the house.  So it definitely seems like we went full circle here.