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The Atlantic Parents Are Sacrificing Their Social Lives on the Altar of Intensive Parenting Inequality has seemingly caused many American parents to jettison friendships and activities in order to invest more resources in their kids. Getty / The Atlantic Over the past few decades, American parents have been pressured into making a costly wager: If they sacrifice their hobbies, interests, and friendships to  devote as much time and as many resources as possible to parenting, they might be able to launch their children into a stable adulthood. While this gamble sometimes pays off, parents who give themselves over to this intensive form of child-rearing may find themselves at a loss when their children are grown and don’t need them as much.

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