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Parents in YA Literature: Can’t Read With Them, Can’t Read Without Them

Posted June 25, 2015 in Discussions / 20 Comments
Parents in YA Literature: Can’t Read With Them, Can’t Read Without Them

If you’re a long time reader of YA, you know the gripe: readers constantly complaining that the parents are never involved, too conveniently absent, or just nonexistent, period. However, I think there’s been a recent shift in the role of parents (at least in contemporary YA) where authors may be overcompensating by making parents who are TOO overbearing. A balance is nice and definitely makes for good family dynamics, but I find that this “helicopter parenting” in books, while sometimes part of the plot, tends to overwhelm the book as much as a lack of parental authority can. Some recent […]