<p>DKE, your story of parents moving to be near the child brought back memories of a grad school colleague I hadn’t thought about in years. She lived at home during college, and her parents moved to be near her when she went to GRADUATE SCHOOL! She ended up meeting someone her first year in grad school and got married really young. Honestly, I think she just didn’t know how to be on her own. I’m mentioning it because I doubt many helicopter parents worry about this angle – if my child thinks she can’t handle life on her own, she might end up marrying really young and probably to somebody really inappropriate. And no, my colleague never finished her grad program.</p>