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Why are parents OVERprotective?

Posted by kratt on 2010-August-24 11:49:33 EDT, Tuesday
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Why do parents (and siblings, for the matter) have a definite tendency to be overprotective?

The interests of parents do diverge from those of daughter. They can have present or future other children, and thus favour the interests of her siblings over the interests of the daughter. But I do not quite see where the interest of siblings is in overprotection.

If parents and daughter are equally pursuing her interests, simply making independent judgment calls of what her best interest is, they could differ in both ways.

After all, a girl can err by being too easy, and winding up with a child from Mr. Wrong, without good genes or paternal support, and without reputation to attract Mr. Right. Or she can err by being too hard to get, with the result that she becomes an old maid, or gets desperate and settles for Mr. Wrong, or gets Mr. Right in the end but wastes some of her prime childbearing years.

Parents might thus be overprotective, and object to the daughter having sex with who she prefers. Or parents could be underprotective and urge their parents to have sex/arranged marriage to someone where she wants to wait with having sex till Mr. Right comes.

But while both happen, I have an impression that overprotective parents opposed to consensual sex on daughter´s part are somehow rather more common than underprotective parents pressurizing daughter into sex.

Can someone explain why this is the case?

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