Most of all, they’ve matured into the most protective parental generation in living memory—obsessed with providing their own kids with the hands-on care and structure they never had. For Xers, parenting means always being there, always knowing where your child is, always watching out for danger. Once their child leaves for grade school or college, they become every teacher’s or professor’s worst nightmare: the not-with-my-child-you-don’t mom or dad, unafraid to sue the school principal or shout at school board members. Next to their own child, what happens to everyone else’s child means
