'Helicopter parents' are not exclusive to China. That said, there certainly does appear to be more than a 'fair share' of them, at least in schools that teach younger kids. However, does that mean that kids who DON'T have 'helicopter parents' are suffering more than those who do?

'Helicopter parents' exist because they not only want to enforce their own ideological model of the world onto their kids, but also want others to enforce that same ideology, even if it is not in the REAL best interests of that child. In other words, a classic case of 'Mama knows best!'

Anyone who has raised children will know that kids don't come with an 'instruction manual'. We do our best to raise our kids, often by drawing on our own (good and bad) experiences that we had when we were growing up.

That said, the now scrapped 'one-child-policy' in China has a lot to answer for.

Yes indeed!