They’re also too busy to have friends. Kids in our neighborhood are never around — always absorbed into some sport or dance thing, or scouts ....can so and so come over? No, he’s got a 5-day scout jamboree coming up ....
My father was a Boy Scout council commissioner. When my brother was in the boys ran the show and the fathers were there to make sure no one got hurt. By the time I was able join it shifted. We ended up being a babysitting service. Parents would drop off the kids and leave, then come back later. They didn’t get involved.