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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by cscurmudgeon on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:49AM (#34194506)
> The stereotypical American helicopter-parent/soccer-mom can be viewed as a direct result of poor zoning practices & the resulting suburban sprawl.

Is there any evidence for that? Because, every new HN thread seems to attack suburban "sprawl".

The reasoning seems plausible but I can also present plausible reasoning that goes the other way.

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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by katbyte on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:43AM (#34194996)
99pi did a podcast on it sorta: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/first-errand/

American vs Japanese views towards this.

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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by fallingknife on Saturday December 31, 2022 @07:33AM (#34195884)
It's not the reason. You see the same things in neighborhoods where you can walk places. And suburban sprawl was just as much a thing 30 years ago. It's an excuse that suburban parents use for their helicopter parenting, which is entirely anxiety driven.
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by odessacubbage on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:40PM (#34198676)
it is highly specious reasoning at best especially when you consider that the advent of helicopter parenting and the boom of suburban development/white flight/etc are separated by decades. i would say the stranger danger panic of the 80s, 90s crime wave and columbine all served as cumulative frog boiling for children's autonomy.
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