Are Western parents more liberal than parents from other countries?

[zenithfreedom]

I've always heard this growing up and as someone who is biracial, I'd agree. I personally don't think there's anything wrong with it.

My mother was from Africa and although not actually strict by African standards, she would have been considered by Western standards. I wasn't ever allowed to hang out with friends as a teen if there was alcohol and couldn't have opposite sex sleepovers which many of my other Irish and English friends parents had.

The reasoning for this was "I'm strict because I want you to do well", but many of my friends with lax parents went on to do just as well if not become more successful than I was.

Yes, depends what culture you are comparing it too. In many cultures parents are more liberal with their sons than their daughters.

There are different views even in France Sweden Germany etc maybe not such bug differences as between UK and Japan Nigeria and Chile but differences nonee the less, look at Spanish view of school age kids going yo bed at 7 or earlier,or Swiss children that go to school by themselves from about 6 or 7, or in Scandinavia where they think it is beneficial for babies to sleep outside unless below -20C

Agree with you.

My dad was Greek Cypriot.
He was very strict and didn't want me going out at all. My English and Caribbean friends had much more freedom than I did. However I was rebellious and would sneak out, but he would find out and wait up for me. It meant even when I went out, I was always worrying about getting in trouble when I got home. I now understand he was trying to protect me, but at the time I just thought he was horrible (he was also horrible tbh - he was abusive).

-- My fun was drinking to excess, taking drugs and going to illegal raves--

It depends. My parents are from a southern European country. In summertime I was allowed to play out til late, from age 9 onwards I didn't really have a strict curfew as long as I was in by bedtime (around 11). I often played out on my own, riding my bike or rollerblades around the neighbourhood as there was no one else my age allowed out that late.
My friends' mums were horrified by this. But in my parents' country this was normal, when we visited there would always be kids of all ages playing out in the street til 11 and it was great fun.

On the other hand my parents were horrified that my friends were allowed to dress "sexy" from a young age - mini skirts and make up etc. Although kids in my culture were given freedom to roam we were very innocent, for example at age 12 we still wore bright clothes with cartoon characters, played with dolls and boys weren't really on our radar. But some of the girls at school in Britain were already doing sexual stuff by age 13. My parents were baffled by how relaxed some families were about their 15 year olds getting pregnant.

So in my experience Britain is more sexually liberal but kids don't get a lot of freedom in other ways.