I try to balance it out by being completely free range while urging her to cut the cord. By the time I was 12, my sons age, I could change oil in a tractor, build a minnow trap from scrap materials, skin a raccoon and make myself pancakes for breakfast from scratch. Maybe my son doesn't need to know those things, but the difference in independence and self-reliance is significant.
This Haskins and similar situations are way beyond though. It's more of a situation of parental greed, IMO.