'This is What Good Parents Do'

from msn:

Parents are taking a more active role in raising their children than they did a decade ago

Active parenting? What is this world coming to?!?!

"Whether it’s a realistic panic or not, things like school shootings or child abductions or pedophile predators, that has a certain group of American parents pretty worried," said Angela Hattery, a sociology professor at Wake Forest University.

"We’ve really moved into this cultural expectation that this is what good parents do," Cooksey said. "It’s more a cultural consensus, that if we are going to be parents, we are going to have to put time into it."

You have to put time into parenting? Why didn't somebody warn me? Is it too late to get out of this??!?!