India, Aug. 11 -- Every age worry about the young. Parents have always attempted to safeguard them from failure, disappointment and misery. But somewhere along the way, protection has evolved to resemble protracted supervision. Increasingly, maturity itself is being negotiated through parental intervention. Across colleges and businesses, stories are appearing of parents attending interviews, negotiating pay, contacting employers about workplace concerns or wading into situations that their adult children are expected to resolve themselves. Such incidents are typically dismissed as entertaining anecdotes. They are not. They suggest towards a larger cultural shift in how society sees independence. The phenomena is not born out of faulty pa...