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‘Desire to care’ stops parents giving up cars, analysis suggests

Deniz Huseyin
06 March 2025
 

Parents find it hard to give up their cars even when their children reach adulthood because of an “ongoing desire to care”, according to a new study. Private car use appears to have strong ties with parenting even as children become increasingly independent, says the report, by Jennifer Kent, Senior Research Fellow and Urbanism Discipline Research Lead at the University of Sydney.

“Attachments to private cars are as complex as they are problematic,” she states....

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