Should there be a Mandatory Parenting Class?
Castle, asked:
Do you think both parents, the mother and Father should attend a mandatory parenting and financing class before they have a baby. It would be free by the government.
Bridget Maxfield
Do you think both parents, the mother and Father should attend a mandatory parenting and financing class before they have a baby. It would be free by the government.
Bridget Maxfield
January 29th, 2009 at 1:09 am
NO
More government is BAD, it will also raise taxes
Though I wish more parents would volunteer to go into parenting classes.
January 29th, 2009 at 9:58 am
I believe what is needed is a license to have children, there are too many stupid people having them who refuse to raise them, but have their hands out for a free hand out because of them!
January 30th, 2009 at 8:55 am
well it would be a great idea .. considering the amount of idiots there are out there but why should normal sensible taxpaying parents have to pay for something that was made mandatory cause of some idiots…the costs would be just too big…
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Maybe for the teenagers that have kids that have them as an accessory for the taxpayers money
February 4th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I think it should be mandatory for people that are expecting to
raise their children using tax payers dollars (the financial planning bit), but for people who are already working and have money saved for the baby it shouldn’t.
I already took a financing class a few years ago, now I am 24 years old and own my own home, have very little debt (just some student loans) and have almost $10,000 in savings.
The classes can be great and do great things, but you have to want to take the advice, and I don’t think that many people will take the advice if they are forced to take the class.
I was forced to take a parenting class because I made the mistake of mentioning to a clinic doctor that I didn’t feel that I was ready to be a parent and what if I was a horrible parent and they reported me to CPS (I didn’t know they could do that before you had kids, but I guess they can) and I had to agree to take parenting classes. It was all a bunch of crap, to be honest. Like I needed to sit in a class and hear some windbag talk about how you aren’t supposed to shake a baby (as if people don’t already know that). All it did was make me feel resentful.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:13 am
I would strongly support such plans to have parents or parents to be to attend Parenting Class. People have spent so much money buying books and attending seminars to become successful, to become leaders, to become good managers and executives, etc… BUT few would spend time improving their knowledge about How to be a father or mother, and how to be a husband or a wife. This society are filled with broken marriages and broken families that subsequently affects our society. And if we look at all these people involved in such broken marriages and families, many of these people are the graduates, degrees holders, professionals, the rich and famous. Aren’t these people smart? But how in the world that in their knowledge and “smartness” ended up in divorce and terrible relationship with their children?
I came to know a lawyer who looks so macho and gentleman and he fought every case in the court BUT when comes the night, he likes to wear ladies underwear, bra and lipstick.
And how come so many of these smart talented degrees holders turning into gays and lesbians, indulging in all sorts of kinky sex and weird behavior? What is happening? Hello…..
I have conducted many surveys and from my statistics, most if not all, of these problems are related to their childhood experiences. And many of them are sexually abused by their close family friends or relatives, verbally and physically abused by someone especially their parents. And I can only termed these group as “Emotional Bankrupt People”.
February 6th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I think they should be available for free to any parent wishing to take part in them.
I have been to many and found them very useful and informative.
February 8th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Nope, because a “class” doesn’t prepare you for what parenting is all about. Nothing can. Experience alone…..
And besides, just because we took the class, passed the test, still doesn’t mean we’ll do right by our kids. It doesn’t mean someone won’t decide to beat their kids a few years down the road, or worse!
Not to mention, I’m NOT in favor of the goverment doing a damn thing when it comes to my kids. They need to focus on the country, I’ll worry about my children.
February 8th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I think it would be a fabulous idea but I don’t think you can enforce it in a free society. Perhaps it would be better to make it required curriculum in the high schools and then strongly suggest the refresher courses when people become parents.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:16 am
That depends. As a babysitter, then nanny for the past twelve years, I doubt I need a parenting class, as I’ve raised two families for 6 years. I wouldn’t be opposed to taking one, though! You know that the people who should be taking the classes wouldn’t show up to class. There’d be thousands of babies sitting in maternity wards until the parents could take the class, and then hundreds of babies left parentless…the idea is good, in theory, but would be impossible to monitor.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
The teen parents need it more then others. There is a great parenting community on
February 12th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I think it would be a good idea.
February 15th, 2009 at 9:50 am
No. It’s not right for the Government to but in and control the public lives. Then we’d be no better then China with their preference for sons and one child policy. My husband and I know how to take care of kids already. We don’t need a parenting class to do it.