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<p>Among my HS/college classmates, being in contact more than once every two-three weeks with parents was commonly taken as a sign either the parents were excessively micromanaging/overprotective or the classmate has serious prior health/maturity issues requiring frequent parental check-ins. </p>
<p>This was especially the case if this applied to male students as some of our parents expected us to be able to cope with functioning independently in a college dorm environment without weekly parental contact as they’ve had similar/worse experiences with universal military service/university back in their respective home countries.</p>