https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944360902988794
Abstract. Problem: Rates of walking and bicycling to school have declined sharply in recent decades, and federal and state governments have committed funds to reverse these trends.To increase rates of walking and biking to school will require understanding why many parents choose to drive their children to school and how well existing programs, like Safe Routes to School, work.

https://academic.oup.com/her/article/23/2/325/631732
For example, compared with parents who did not drive their child to or from school, there was a lower proportion of parents of car travellers who agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, 'My child's school encourages the children to walk to school' (38% vs 51%), and there was a higher proportion of parents of car travellers who agreed

https://www.saferoutespartnership.org/resources/research/why-parents-drive-children-school-implications
The study found that 75% of parents driving their children less than 2 miles to school said they did this for convenience and to save time. Nearly half of parents driving their children less than 2 miles did not allow their child to walk to school without adult supervision. Accompanying a child on a walk to school greatly increases the time the

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5682557/
Parents who regularly choose the car seem to have different thoughts regarding what constitutes a close enough distance to enable walking or cycling to school in comparison with parents who choose active travel for their children—even though they share the same distance between home and school (Lee et al., 2013).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232942392_Why_Parents_Drive_Children_to_School_Implications_for_Safe_Routes_to_School_Programs
Specifically, for the children included in this study, school starts between 7.30 and 8.20 a.m., which closely corresponds to parents' departure for work and results in parents driving their

https://activelivingresearch.org/why-parents-drive-children-school-implications-safe-routes-school-programs
METHODS: We used data from a telephone survey to explore why parents drive their children to school. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: We found that 75% of parents driving their children less than 2 miles to school said they did this for convenience and to save time. Nearly half of parents driving their children less than 2 miles did not allow their

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Why-Parents-Drive-Children-to-School%3A-Implications-McDonald-Aalborg/fe51243d6fa3901dc3e0fe999e25c524bad2f7b8
Problem: Rates of walking and bicycling to school have declined sharply in recent decades, and federal and state governments have committed funds to reverse these trends. To increase rates of walking and biking to school will require understanding why many parents choose to drive their children to school and how well existing programs, like Safe Routes to School, work. Purpose: We aimed to

https://trid.trb.org/view/880864
Among parents that drove their children less than 1 mile to school - the most likely potential walkers - 66% say they drop their child at school because of convenience. The assessment of SRTS programs found that few addressed parental convenience. SRTS programs need to address parental convenience needs by providing alternative ways of

https://www.planning.org/knowledgebase/resource/9181116/
This JAPA article explores the relationship between a parent's choice to drive children to school and Safe Routes to School programs. Through a telephone survey, researchers found that these programs often do not address parental convenience and time constraints. Planners can work with parents and schools to develop creative solutions to this

https://trid.trb.org/view/898553
Increasing the rates of walking and biking to school requires a better understanding of why many parents choose to drive their children to school and the related implications for the Safe Routes to School program. A telephone survey was conducted of parents in the San Francisco Bay Area with children between the ages of 10 and 14.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/01/15/376966406/a-new-study-reveals-much-about-how-parents-really-choose-schools
New Orleans offers a unique opportunity to study parent choice. As we've reported earlier, more than 9 out of 10 New Orleans children attend charter schools. Choice, in other words, is hardly

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/how-distance-to-school-affects-student-well-being
Today, nearly 60 percent of kids get to school by car, almost four times as many as in the late 1960s, when just 16 percent of children did so. One study quantifies what many intuit: Long commutes

https://www.bts.gov/topics/passenger-travel/back-school-2019
Tuesday, January 12, 2021. More than half of pre-high school students in the United States—about 20 million children in 2016 aged 5-14—travel over 2 miles to school. At these distances, students are nearly evenly split between taking a school bus and being driven in a private vehicle. For many students, however, additional factors often

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29167653/
A sample of 245 parents (194 women) of school children aged 10-15 in the County of Värmland in Sweden were included in the study. The results of PLS-SEM show that the factor Social convenience has a direct relationship with the frequency of car use indicating that the wish to accompany the child and the convenience of car impacts on car choice

https://www.educationnext.org/going-extra-mile-school-choice-how-five-cities-tackle-challenges-student-transportation/
That said, a 2017 survey of parents in Denver, Detroit, New Orleans, and D.C. found that driving was the most common mode of transport to school in each of these cities. As many as 67 percent of Denver parents drive their kids to school. Even in D.C., which has a strong public-transit system, 43 percent of parents drive their children to school.

https://walkbiketoschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Final_WBTSresearch_2021.pdf
Fifty-five percent of parents who reported not allowing their children to walk or bicycle to school identified the number of cars along the route to school as a ... Parent survey data collected by 6,500 schools from 2007 through 2014 show that parent-perceived school support for walking and bicycling for the school trip increased from 24.8

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01944360902988794
Results and conclusions: We found that 75% of parents driving their children less than 2 miles to school said they did this for convenience and to save time. Nearly half of parents driving their children less than 2 miles did not allow their child to walk to school without adult supervision.

https://trid.trb.org/view/415538
Briefly, the main factors discussed here, which influence whether or not parents choose to drive their children to school are: (i) concerns about road safety; (ii) concerns about personal safety of children; (iii) parental choice of school; (iv) the possibility of linking the school journey with the journey to work may influence whether

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320927266_What_Drives_Them_to_Drive-Parents'_Reasons_for_Choosing_the_Car_to_Take_Their_Children_to_School
Indeed, parents typically opt to drive their children to school and activities for convenience-, time-, and safety-related reasons (Westman et al., 2017). In these scenarios, these behaviours are

https://www.professorshouse.com/driving-your-kids-to-school/
This can easily add up to anywhere from 1.5 to 3 hours in the car just to get the kids to and from school. Many parents who drive their kids to school have several children with differing dismissal times. If your pre-K student gets out at 1:30 and your 5th grader gets out at 3:15, you have nearly two hours of idle time to waste.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-bus-driver-shortage-paying-parents-drive-kids/
The problem has prompted one school to offer $700 to parents who agree to drive their children to school for the year. "EastSide wants to pay you $700 for the year for dropping off and picking up

https://www.parents.com/parenting/divorce/coping/age-by-age-guide-to-what-children-understand-about-divorce/
Elementary school children can feel extreme loss and rejection during a divorce, but parents can rebuild their child's sense of self-esteem and security. To start, each parent should spend quality

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/the-1-question-parents-should-ask-their-kid-s-teacher-at-the-start-of-the-school-year/ar-AA1fi0sE
"When parents and teachers establish a partnership early in the school year, parents have the opportunity to learn how they can best help their children from the start. And parents are able to

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/5-far-better-ways-to-commute-to-school/ar-AA1ehiyI
But there are ways to reclaim that time — as quality time with kids or as free time for parents — that offer genuine adventure, fun, and incidental lessons in self-reliance and independence

https://news.sky.com/story/fines-for-parents-whose-children-miss-school-to-rise-as-part-of-government-attendance-drive-13083202
It comes as the government announced overnight that fines for parents whose children miss school will rise by at least £20 as part of an "attendance drive".

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/parents-can-be-paid-up-to-300-per-month-3000-yearly-to-drive-their-kids-to-school/
Parents are paid $300 a month, or $3,000 a year, for dropping off and picking up their children daily. However, if they choose to just drop off or pick up, then the family receives half of the

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/16jmxw9/why_do_many_parents_drive_their_kids_to_school/
Now that the school year has started, every morning there's always traffic especially around schools. There's always a backup of cars of parents dropping their kids off at school even though their are buses available to take kids to school. Now, if your child has challenges that make taking the bus difficult, than that is different.

https://www.facebook.com/drphilshow/videos/my-husband-pablo-and-his-other-women-full-episode-dr-phil/796893562570501/
My Husband Pablo and His Other Women | FULL EPISODE | Dr. Phil Anna says her husband, Pablo, is a cheater who admits he only strayed once -- but she

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/parents-share-how-different-their-kids-lives-are
2. "I'll never be able to relate to my kids. By the time I was their age, I had dealt with my parents' divorce due to domestic violence, moved about a half dozen times, and went to eight different

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/22/parents-teens-location-tracking-college-adulthood
Parents' unprecedented ability to keep tabs on their kids might be threatening some of the normal, healthy parts of young adulthood. Why it matters: Location-sharing tools can help give parents peace of mind and ease the logistical burdens of raising a family.But some parents want to keep that data flowing even after their children head off to college — a tight virtual leash at a stage that