Family-Coordinated Halloween Costumes and What's Lost

Is Halloween participation declining? I've wondered about this for some years. This year's Halloween theme, it seemed on social media, was family-coordinated costumes. Sometimes with the kids being character counterparts, but this year often with the parents (my friends) involved. OK, it makes for a cute Facebook photo, but I have to believe it was the parents that "coordinated" (insisted) that. The sad part is that is squashes the child's individuality and wishes a bit for the parent's selfish desire for photo "likes". I sort of loved the organic clashes that could arise in a group of trick-or-treaters: a ninja with a hillbilly with a ghost with a vampire. The kid gets to be what the want. I'm saddened holiday children's play is another causality of narcissistic parents in the Facebook age.