Over at NRO, George Will asks about the current push to suppress, or as he calls it, a “crackdown”, on the practice of so-called “free range parenting”.
As an answer, I suspect that it is because these “helicopter parents” know that their children will not be able to compete with the “free-range” children and seek to even the odds using the power of the state.
The Beta parents are raising Beta children, and they know it. Alpha parents are raising Alpha children and they don’t know it. They just think they’re raising children.
The Beta children will have a tough acclimation to life outside of the Beta-bubble placed around them by mommy and daddy and will likely have a psychological collapse if they ever set foot in the real world. Or outside of a modern university.
It sounds plausible, but I think it’s unlikely that helicopter parents are that aware of the free-range competition. More likely it’s just sheeple parents acting like they always do, exerting control over anyone who believes differently.