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Half of parents report tracking their adult kids, and 1 in 4 trackers say it can increase their anxiety (medicalxpress.com)
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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Anyone else remember when "helicopter parenting" was a bad thing? It's wild how society went from, "That's too overbearing, we need to give our kids space to grow independently" to "It's okay to track the location of our young adult offspring" in the span of a generation.