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Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives, and Fine With It
New surveys show that today’s intensive parenting has benefits, not just risks, and most young adults seem happy with it, too.

... two new Pew Research Center surveys — of young adults 18 to 34 and of parents of children that age — tell a more nuanced story. Most parents are in fact highly involved in their grown children’s lives, it found, texting several times a week and offering advice and financial support. Yet in many ways, their relationships seem healthy and fulfilling.

Nine in 10 parents rate their relationships with their young adult children as good or excellent, and so do eight in 10 young adults. Rather than feeling worried or disappointed about how things are going in their children’s lives, eight in 10 parents say they feel proud and hopeful.
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Originally posted by Cindysphinx:
In the past, you had to pay a lot even to talk to your parents long distance. Now, it’s free.

That is a big change. The only cost to maintaining that relationship is time.

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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:

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Originally posted by Cindysphinx:
In the past, you had to pay a lot even to talk to your parents long distance. Now, it’s free.

That is a big change. The only cost to maintaining that relationship is time.

Measurement of "involvement" is really tough. A century ago a much higher fraction of the US population lived in the same town with their parents and the rest of their extended family.