The present study used a sample of 779 unmarried emerging adult college students to test the hypothesis that higher levels of helicopter parenting would be related to less positive marital attitudes. Helicopter parenting entails intense and intrusive involvement by parents under the guise of caring and protection. Using hierarchical multiple regression models, results suggested that helicopter parenting was not associated with the general importance placed on marriage but did influence emerging adults’ beliefs about the advantages of being single versus being married and their expected age of marriage. Higher reported helicopter parenting among emerging adults was associated with stronger beliefs that being single held more advantages than being married and an expected delay of eventual marriage. Other results suggested that parental warmth with mothers and fathers was also an important correlate of emerging adults’ marital attitudes.

Carotidynia remains mired in controversy. Whether to identify this self-limiting unilateral neck pain as a distinct clinical entity or a diagnostic sign associated with a variety of conditions remains a topic of ongoing debate. Adding to the discussion is the occasional finding on imaging studies of a transient inflammatory process surrounding the carotid artery in a number of individuals who present with unilateral neck pain. Although some use carotidynia as the designation of choice by which to identify this inflammatory process, the acronym TIPIC (transient perivascular inflammation of the carotid artery) syndrome is being touted as a far more descriptive and less contentious alternative. Having TIPIC syndrome replace carotidynia, however, need not necessarily signal the latter's outright elimination as some have advocated. When used as a diagnostic sign, carotidynia provides an appreciation of the many conditions that may be associated with idiopathic unilateral neck pain.

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