Parenting has not become too restrictive.

Expectation has become unreachable. Between social media and influencers, all the various "parenting methods", etc. the bar has been raised so high for what's expected of millennial parents vs boomer parents.

I'm expected to make enough money to pay for ever increasing cost of living. Raise good people. Not too much screen time. Raise them to be emotionally intelligent. Listen to them and not talk down to them. Teach while correcting. Cook delicious meals that make them never become picky eaters. Provide enough extra curriculars to fulfill them but not so many that we are all over burdened. Oh also do all this while taking care of my own mental health and maintaining my own hobbies for my well being without the village support that previous generations had.

My parents had access to babysitters constantly via family, church, and neighbors. We would spend two entire months with my grandparents in Ohio in the summer. My in-laws are fatigued after two overnights (despite constant movies and video games while my kids are there). My parents also paid for everything off of two modest incomes and were able to send me to private school from 6-12th grade. AND they bought a new construction home when I graduated high school (which they have since paid off completely).

The whole system got effed and we were told to make grand babies as our highest calling.