专题06 阅读理解之议论文10篇（名校最新期中真题）-2022-2023学年高二英语下学期期中复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（牛津译林版2020）

译林版（2020）高二英语下学期期中复习 查缺补漏冲刺满分 (名校最新期中真题) 专题06 阅读理解之议论文10篇 （2022春·江苏常州·高二常州高级中学校考期中）Have you ever heard the dangers of helicopter parenting? Remaining too involved in a kid’s life, especially throughout college, can lead to depression, lack of self-reliance and some other mental problems. This wisdom seems sound. But some academics and educators now say they see signs of a troubling resistance. The concern: that too much of warnings and horror stories — the cover of Julie Lythcott-Haims’ bestseller How to Raise an Adult instructs moms and dads to avoid “the overparenting trap” — is discouraging parents from getting involved at all. “Yes, parents can be intruders (unpopular people),” says Marjorie Savage, a researcher in the University of Minnesota. “At the same time, there are increasing examples of parents refusing to step up when students genuinely need their family.” At Hofstra University, for example, parents now ask embarrassedly about mental-health and campus-safety resources, as if bringing up those topics were forbidden, says Branka Kristic, who heads the family-outreach programs. And Savage recalls talking to a mom who kept quiet about her son’s signs of depression until right before he failed a semester. She did not want to “helicopter in”. That means colleges, which have spent the past decade learning to cope with parents who get too involved, now have a different problem. In recent years, hundreds of colleges have either launched or increased their parent offices to help parents. Much of this began, of course, because schools were forced to cope with a generation of students connected with their parents like never before. On average, they communicate 22.1 times per week, according to research from Barbara Hofer, a psychology professor at Middlebury College. That’s more than twice the rate of a decade ago, before almost every student had a smartphone. With some moms and dads thinking twice of contacting the school in the first place, some programs are be