I think we live in the age of hyper-parenting where every child must be busy 24 hours per day. We must provide them with every experience or they'll fall behind or...maybe, feel less than someone else! If they haven't been to Disney World by the time they are five they're scarred for life. There's so much stress put on parents to make sure their kids are "active" and that they, God forbid, never experience boredom! The pendulum has swung too far. I also think we who have experienced divorce feel guilty and want to make up to our kids for what has been inflicted upon them (not necessarily a bad thing to do!). Also divorce made us feel helpless. For many of us our spouses decided the marriage was toast and no matter what we did to address issues etc. it made no difference. We maybe over compensate by trying to control our kids lives. I dunno, just thinking out loud here.
