Most parents say that a hands-on time-intensive strategy to parenting is the best option. This was the most common answer in a study that interviewed parents across socioeconomic backgrounds. This implies that parents feel significant pressure to spend the time and money on their children regardless of it is feasible for them to do so. The study was done by interviewing people on specific hypothetical scenarios. Each scenario had a more intensive parenting option and a more natural parenting option for the people to judge.

Key Takeaways:

• Current cultural stimuli is making parents feel a giant-sized amount of pressure to pour oodles of both time and money into taking care of their children and guilt if they don't.
  
• These modern social mores were discussed by Patrick Ishizuka, in his book, "Social Class, Gender and Contemporary Parenting Standards in the United States."
  
• The book culls, collates and analyzes data from 3600 parental study participants to make understanding of the phenomenon.
  

"The findings suggest intensive parenting has become the dominant model for how parents across the socio-economic spectrum feel children should be raised – regardless of whether the parent has the resources to actually do so."

Read more: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/01/hands-intensive-parenting-best-most-parents-say

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