Extreme parental involvement is being over stated. Yes parents do make watch very young children more closely and interact them more then parents used to but you are going to needs actual evidence if you want to sell me on the idea that is hurting children in anything but the most extreme cases.

The arguments sound good but they ignore the reality of most modern American families. The argument that non-competitive soccer is causing children to be social impaired may make sense on a shallow level but it ignores that fact that those same kids spend about about ten time more time fighting for toys at daycare then they do being told to play nice at soccer games. Besides how non-competitive soccer is for all but the youngest players is grossly overrated.

For all the evidence I can see it simply isn't true that most parents are grossly involved with older children lives. Yes there are extreme cases but I would guess that the number of teenagers suffering from excessive parental involvement is dwarfed by the numbers suffering form under involvement. There seems to be a lot of numbers on my side to support that argument from teach drug use and pregnancy to runaway bullying on social networks.

Sorry there just is no there there. What do you think the odds are that the guy who wrote the story doesn't even have kids?