Overparenting: A Trend Among Parents

I could not agree more to the claim that overparenting is spreading all over America. I have seen many cases of parents living their children's lives for them, not just in America but in other countries too. This article points out many reasons for this particular trend of parenting, but I believe there is only one major reason that contributes to this, and it is simply because "all the other parents are doing it".
I spent a part of my childhood in East Asia as mentioned in the article and I must say overparenting is pretty serious there. The sole purpose of childhood is education and parents do everything in their power to make their children study every single moment. This results in academic days that begins at 7 a.m. and ends at 11 p.m. Private tutoring institutions grew so big that the government tried to regulate them by prohibiting them to work after 10 p.m., but the institutions are so large that they just pay the fee and work pretty much around the clock. While I was walking around the city around midnight I saw a big bus bringing students from the school to the institution. Since I was going to school in America I could see how serious the problem was. However, the irony is that the parents do not really believe in the system. The parents are just scared that their kids will fall behind in school. I believe the parents are not even aware of some of the scientific reasons described in the article, and the one reason they follow the trend of overparenting is just because it's a "trend".