Report: Parents Taking a More Active Role in Raising Children

STEPHEN OHLEMACHER :

Teachers and politicians have been clamoring for years for parents to get more involved with their children. The message appears to be getting through - at least to some.

Parents are setting greater restrictions on TV watching and are reading more to youngsters than they did a decade ago, the government reported Wednesday.

They are also encouraging more participation in extracurricular activities that focus on education, according to the report.

The findings suggest adults are reacting to a more dangerous world, while 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.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 6, 2007 12:00 AM
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