Family Unfriendly Quotes

“Bad anthropology fosters an overly individualistic, materialistic, and pessimistic culture, which is family unfriendly.”
― Timothy P. Carney, Family Unfriendly: A Critical Examination of Overparenting and Its Consequences

“When a mom walked away from the playground and grabbed a can of Miller Lite, I was as proud as if one of my players had run the bases in the proper order. I had helped build a place where parents could bring their children—and ignore them.”
― Timothy P. Carney, Family Unfriendly: A Critical Examination of Overparenting and Its Consequences

“One 2023 paper in the Journal of Pediatrics concluded that “a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults.”
― Timothy P. Carney, Family Unfriendly: A Critical Examination of Overparenting and Its Consequences

“Today’s maximum-effort, high-anxiety, low-trust parenting isn’t high-quality parenting. It isn’t producing better results for children or for parents.”
― Timothy P. Carney, Family Unfriendly: A Critical Examination of Overparenting and Its Consequences

“Parents worry that they are failing if their kids are not prodigies by age eight, or aren’t on the path to dominance in violin, tennis, or math. Most parents don’t actually submit their child to the regimen of a Tiger Woods or a Serena Williams, but way too many parents feel guilty that they’re not doing more.”
― Timothy P. Carney, Family Unfriendly: A Critical Examination of Overparenting and Its Consequences