So I&#x27;m not discounting that that&#x27;s healthier from a personal perspective, but I doubt it&#x27;s a realistic change across a population.<p>I guess I&#x27;m mainly trying to say, I don&#x27;t think this overparenting trend is society collectively going insane, it&#x27;s a natural consequence of a different change, that of family size.  So I suspect if you took a bunch of parents from 1900 and dropped them in 2015 with smaller families, you&#x27;d get roughly the same outcome.