Raising children in the modern era, with its inherent complexity, today’s parent resembles a long-distance runner aiming for peak performance.

This goal is connected to the protection of the children, their upbringing, providing material and emotional goods, and the expectation that they "become valuable individuals, autonomous, capable."

To achieve this goal, the parent is anxious, worried, tries to anticipate, manage, studies, consults, gets disappointed, feels confused, and then worries again.