The article discusses the evolution of intensive parenting since 1933, as described by Isadore Luce Smith, highlighting its impact on parental stress today. The concept, which encourages exhaustive involvement in children's lives, has become prevalent and idealized in American culture. However, it often leads to overwhelming stress for parents, prompting the U.S. surgeon general to recognize it as a public health concern. Critics have long warned about the burdens of this philosophy, indicating a need for reevaluating how parenthood is approached in contemporary society.
The U.S. surgeon general has declared parental stress a public-health issue. Parents report feeling isolated, exhausted, and overwhelmed.
These parents, as Smith reported in 1933, were obsessed with issues such as thumb-sucking and raising their children to be 'supermen and superwomen.'
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