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But your average Stanford student does not see their parents every weekend and does not have them talking to their professors on a regular basis, the way a WBB player might have her parents hovering over her, following along to away games, talking to coaches, etc.  I've always thought there is something unwholesome about that, and sometimes it has bad ramifications for the player and for the team.

I would have thought you would be very aware that most college students live with or near to their parents.
A 2020 study indicated 57% of new college students didn't move away from home.  It indicated that the schools with the farthest pull are CalTech, MIT, and Stanford—students avg. more than 1,000 miles to attend.  Similar numbers were found in 2018.

A study released in 2022 by researchers at Harvard and the US Census Bureau indicated

• Nearly 60% of young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up
  
• 80% of young adults live within 100 miles of where they grew up
  

The distance between Stanford students & their parents is abnormally great.  There is little weaning for the students that get uprooted to travel half-way across the country to take up residence.  Most college students (and their parents) have time to transition from their home town and birth family to a life on their own.  Perhaps the communication available in this century allows for continued contact, despite the physical distance.

I am not arguing that it is better or worse to have that separation. I know it is better for some and worse for others.  I am only suggesting that the average Stanford student is more separated from their parents than most others of their age group.  If Stanford athletes happen to see their parents an extra handful of times a year, they are still probably more separated than the majority of their age group.  (Indeed, I suspect that NCAA freshmen on scholarships have fewer interactions with their parents than other freshmen, as they likely travelled farther from home to college.)

I will refrain from speculating on how that separation affected me versus my siblings who stayed relatively close to home.  We were each different people at age 18 and so it would be hard to differentiate the effect of this distance on subsequent maturation and family relationships.

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But your average Stanford student does not see their parents every weekend and does not have them talking to their professors on a regular basis, the way a WBB player might have her parents hovering over her, following along to away games, talking to coaches, etc.  I've always thought there is something unwholesome about that, and sometimes it has bad ramifications for the player and for the team.

I would have thought you would be very aware that most college students live with or near to their parents.
A 2020 study indicated 57% of new college students didn't move away from home.  It indicated that the schools with the farthest pull are CalTech, MIT, and Stanford—students avg. more than 1,000 miles to attend.  Similar numbers were found in 2018.

A study released in 2022 by researchers at Harvard and the US Census Bureau indicated

• Nearly 60% of young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up
  
• 80% of young adults live within 100 miles of where they grew up
  

The distance between Stanford students & their parents is abnormally great.  There is little weaning for the students that get uprooted to travel half-way across the country to take up residence.  Most college students (and their parents) have time to transition from their home town and birth family to a life on their own.  Perhaps the communication available in this century allows for continued contact, despite the physical distance.

I am not arguing that it is better or worse to have that separation. I know it is better for some and worse for others.  I am only suggesting that the average Stanford student is more separated from their parents than most others of their age group.  If Stanford athletes happen to see their parents an extra handful of times a year, they are still probably more separated than the majority of their age group.  (Indeed, I suspect that NCAA freshmen on scholarships have fewer interactions with their parents than other freshmen, as they likely travelled farther from home to college.)

I will refrain from speculating on how that separation affected me versus my siblings who stayed relatively close to home.  We were each different people at age 18 and so it would be hard to differentiate the effect of this distance on subsequent maturation and family relationships.