Why are people required to take parenting classes before they become a foster parent, but not a blood parent?
Healthy Person asked:
Why is it that the law requires people to take parenting classes before they become a foster parent, but..
When a couple is expecting a biological child, the law doesn’t require them to take any classes.
Why is it that the law requires people to take parenting classes before they become a foster parent, but..
When a couple is expecting a biological child, the law doesn’t require them to take any classes.
That sounds one-sided to me; shouldn’t all soon-to-be-parents be held to the same standards?
Why are temporary parents required to do stuff that permanent parents dont have to do?
I would think that permanent parents should have higher standards.
Why do the temporary parents have higher standards?
Bonnie Bain
September 15th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
No because a foster parent is a “temporary parent” while a blood parent is a permnant parent. Adoptions rules are more stricter than just having your own kid. Nope unless they abuse their blood child then you have to get a court order for that.
September 16th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Biology does not stand aside for legalities, unfortunately.
It would be great if there were some kind of lessons, but then you get into the problem of who does the teaching and what gets taught. There are a lot of sticky issues involved.
September 17th, 2008 at 3:02 am
love is more natural with your own flesh….govt is being careful….not much required to marry either compared to driving..
September 17th, 2008 at 6:01 am
You can stop the foster parent thing. You can’t stop the blood parent thing except through forced abortion.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:19 am
There is a fundamental right to have children (assuming you are biologically able to do so), just as there is a fundamental right to marry. There is no fundamental right to adopt, so reasonable standards and procedures may be implemented by the state.
September 21st, 2008 at 3:10 am
Unfortunately this is the case. Civil libertarians would scream if such a concept was proposed, but in truth it is any damn fool who can create a child. Any dull witted drone can become a parent, while the state wants saints only. This is because the state needs some backup to lean on when a child is abused or hurt by a foster parent, so they can say, “We tried to screen these people before entrusting the child to them….” Giving them excuses when they do place a child into an abusive situation.
Birth parents however can keep getting pregnant even AFTER they abuse a child. Mandatory sterilization should happen for any man or woman who abuses an innocent child.
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
i’m assuming u mean adopting parents? apparently only adopting parents can molest their kids. seriously, i agree that it is a double standard but i think the false logic behind it is that they want less people “pulling a woody allen” if you will. (people who want to raise their own spouse and marry them. and you can’t marry blood relatives). but yeah if you are talking about foster parents, it’s usually because sadly, the kids/teens have been abused and the state/whoever doesn’t want those being fostered exposed to the same, if not worse, abuse.
on a side note, i think those who have served in the military should take parenting classes. you do not raise a kid the same way you train a soldier. (my dad was in the military) every military parent i have met has always been too strict/overbearing. lots of yelling/verbal abuse. trying to militarize the child rather than parent them.