After-school Special: Parents getting more involved with kids
A study of the 2004 Census reports that parents are putting more limits on their kids' TV watching, more are reading to their kids every night, and more feel guilty about not spending time with their kids.
From the AP story:
The findings suggest that adults are reacting to a more dangerous world, while both parents and students are dealing with increased competition to get into good colleges, experts said.“Whether it’s a realistic panic or not, things like school shootings or child abductions or pedophile predators, that has a certain group of American parents pretty worried,” said Angela Hattery, a sociology professor at Wake Forest University.
Here's the whole story.
Go here for a lot of charts about children's quality of life.