The conventional wisdom has it that so-called helicopter parents are annoying their children by hovering over their every move as they apply to college. But it turns out most freshmen are happy with how involved mom and dad were during their college search.
In fact, new survey data suggest that the bigger problem may be the opposite — parents sometimes aren't as attentive as their children would like.
That's especially true for Hispanic students, who were much more likely than Whites to say their parents weren't involved enough in areas like helping them apply to college and helping them choose classes once they got there.
The figures, from a major survey of college freshman out from University of California-Los Angeles, are part of an emerging body of research on what has largely been an anecdotal trend: the idea that parents have become much more involved in the lives of their teenage children, perhaps unhealthily so.
