All parents should be legally required to take parenting class before having a child

Hello!Let's go through this point-by-point. - Parenting classes will prepare parents better and might improve parenting skills.>This is a good point. I will let concede that classes might improve parenting skills.- Parenting classes will teach parents to manage stress, and what do when they are at the "breaking point," thus preventing child abuse. >I am very interested what your idea of child abuse is.>Surely occassionally yelling is not considered child abuse. A normal parent would apologize for that and work to hold any temper. My parents occassionally reached "the breaking point" and thus yelled, but I would hardly say that they were abusive. If you mean to imply things like hitting, shoving, intense berating, then these people will not be fixed by simple parenting classes.- Parents taking this class will learn how to discipline teenagers, thus reducing teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol use, violence, bullying, sexting and many other issues facing teens.>What exactly is your definition of disipling is.>Do you mean how to curtail bad behavior, or do you mean upbringing in general?>Does discipline take an entire class?>What about educating kids on the dangers of unprotected sex, drug use, violence, bullying, sexting, etc.? - Teens often face negative peer pressure to do risky things. If their parents parented, other teens won't imitate them. Now parents won't have to worry about their teen.>Surely parents cannot stop children from doing risking behavior all the time.>What about educating kids about risks? Surely this wouldn't take an entire class.- Many parents don't discipline properly. This has negative effects on the child and society. Parenting classes will give them the skills they need to discipline.Again, what do you mean by discipline?- Many parents allow their child or teenager to use internet in their bedrooms, and not in an open area where everyone can walk by and look. This can result in the child having contact with internet predators, cyber bullying, posting inappropriate pictures of on self, looking at porn, etc. There is no good reason for a child or teen to have internet in their bedrooms. The parenting class will give parents advice on internet safety (internet devices are to be used in a family area when parents are home, parental controls including blocking, monitoring and time limits installed, parent or adult check regularly).Really, this is so wrong I'll have to go by point-by-point.>And you would need an entire class to teach parents not to do this? Surely, a builboard would suffice!>Why not educate kids about the dangers of Internet?>Why not educate kids about predators?>Why not teach kids to be respectful?>Why not teach thee kids the risk of posting inapproapriate pictures?>Why not teach kids about the moral wrong of pornography?> Why not trust your kid? Are you really so high-and-mighty that you must go on a crusade to protect children from every thing?Why mandatory parenting classes are a stupid idea:>Where will we get the money (or the space) to educate millions of Americans?>What about the adults who have full-time jobs?>What exactly do we teach them? Do we teach them about spanking, or is that morally wrong? Do we teach them to raise them by godly standards, or is that morally wrong? How far do we go at tolerating different styles of parenting?>What would make parents follow the rules?>What would be the penalty for failing to show up? Are you going to imprison a pregnant woman and force her baby to an adoption home?