Why is parenting from the 1990s so different from 2014/2015?

You're just noticing differences between individuals - not between generations. You need a bigger sample. read more

Your anecdotal evidence does not align with the general data. I would say that either you are just more sensitive to those examples where you see parents being less involved or you did not really have much of an awareness of parenting practices in the 1990s. read more

I was a parent in 1990 and I'm not impressed with today's parents at all. They allow the children to decide what will be done, they have not taught them how to behave in public, everyone has to put up with their bad tempers and worse behavior. read more

Although much of the existing research suggests that the lowest levels of involvement of men in domestic and childcare tasks is found in households with unemployed men and women in part-time employment (Burghes et al., 1997; Ferri & Smith, 1996; O'Brien, 1992;Wheelock, 1990), the group of unemployed men in the English sample showed an interestingly different picture. read more