China. Two strong influences: an idolization of western parenting plus the one child policy. Take your caricature of a dependent US kid and add the pressure and coddling of six parents.
And yet, you’ll see first graders walking alone or in adult free groups to the convenience store during lunch to get something to eat. It’s only really the black Audi crowd that super coddle their children.
My hunanese wife had free reign of the city since elementary school, things are not that different now.
My hunanese wife had free reign of the city since elementary school, things are not that different now.