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Based on qualitative empirical data from the international research project "Governance of educational trajectories in Europe" (Goete), the article addresses the role of parents in coping and decision making regarding the schooling and education of 9th grade students. The study revealed the very important role parents play in coping with the school demands and educational trajectories of young people, which is in line with previous research on youth and education. The article strives to explain the broader social, political and cultural contexts that frame the role of parents and the family in general. Among others, these are the neoliberal process of individualising responsibility, reflected in high aspirations of parents and their children regarding education, the so-called familialisation, the protective attitude of parents to their children and the contradictions, low trust in school staff etc. The authors seek to show that it is important to study the constellation of these factors in order to reveal the complex picture of the common endeavours of Slovenian parents to do everything to give their children the best educational opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]