Parenting Should Be Required In High School

First of all, there is no guide line on how to raise children. Parents are able to take care of their own children just fine and a right to care for their kids the way they want. Each child is different and people should not have to tell you how to raise your own child.

While I may be opposed to “required” parents classes, I don’t fail to see the importance of them. In addition, one could also argue that there are safety concerns with uneducated parents, and they too would be correct. Small things like how to put your baby to bed could literally be a matter of death, as well as parents with little to no knowledge on disciplining skills that can sometimes be too harsh, may have long term effects on their children.

Should teens be required to take child development classes and parenting classes while in high school? Of course they should be required to take child development and parenting classes! They should be required to take these classes to learn the ins and outs of being a parent. This will lower the amount of single parents, create more effective parents, and make sure they are prepared.

Due to the rise of teenage pregnancy and the heavy costs that is incurred, legislature should enact a law making it mandatory that teens receive birth control. Early teenage pregnancy risks the teens educational future and other life opportunities. In addition, taxpayers now are paying an estimated $20 billion a year to take care of the infants that our teens are now having.

Picture this, she is sixteen, overjoyed and excited. That time has come, kicking, screaming, shouting, and crying. Nurses in and out of the room, monitors going off, family standing there as their support system. This describes a typical labor process for most women. What most people do not know is that they are not typically prepared for the worst, or prepared at all. Having a baby is an enormous responsibility that people should be prepared for and educated about. The debate about having these classes in high school has its merits, but ultimately, these classes are too important to discontinue. For several reasons, students should be required to take a parenting class in high school.

This article takes into consideration that parenting classes should be taught in high school. It reinforces the idea that new skills are being taught to prepare students for the future, but one of the most important skills, how to be prepare to raise a child, is not being taught. The article reasons that if parenting classes would be provided in school, it would provide many benefits to society and students. For example, “...[I]n 2011, 329,797 babies were born to high school age moms” (Anderson). If parenting classes were taught in school, it could help expose teens to the appeals of raising a child and can better prepare them for the future. Parenting classes can also reduce the rate of child abuse. Child abuse is believed to be caused

Did you know 30% of children in the United States live in a single-parent household as of 2012? ( )Every year this number is on the rise and it is causing children everywhere to suffer. When children are raised in an environment with only one parent they can have less opportunities and less supervision than a child with two parents. Children should not be raised in single-parent households because it can lead to abuse from parents, violence in children and poverty.

Decreasing teen pregnancy has been a constant battle for the United States in the past few years. America has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the western part of the world despite not being the leader in sexually active teenagers. The main problem is that here in the United States we do not educate our children enough on having safe sex. Our children end up learning on their own and eventually end up having a child from the lack of knowledge they have. They also take away from their own lives, because a child raising a child is a big task for anyone to take on.

2) I believe parents shouldn’t be required to take parenting classes. The only reason why is because parents are taught different things throughout their cultures. They sometimes rather follow what their parents taught them about parenting. However, parents should consider taking classes because they can learn important information like how to lower the risk of SIDS.

Also, schools that hand out condoms students are less likely to have unsafe sex than schools that don’t (ACLU). Research shows that when teenagers are required to get parental permission, more 15% of them would rather have unsafe sex than get parent permission. A law that requires teenager to gain parental permission before receiving contraceptives will have some harmful consequences (Guttmacher Institute). One half of new HIV cases in America come from adolescents, 3 million teenagers get an STD, and almost 900,000 girls become pregnant (ACLU). These results will rise if teenagers are required to get parent

Tax payers have to pay a small fortune every year because of costs associated with teen pregnancies. The American people had to cover $9.4 billion in expenses in 2010 ("About Teen Pregnancy"). High school dropout rates are obscenely high amongst teen mothers. Approximately 50% of women who give birth during adolescence will go on to graduate high school ("About Teen Pregnancy"). This causes the young mother to be at a higher risk for poverty and a lowers the amount of opportunities to be successful. Children being born into broken homes are more likely to follow in their parent’s footsteps. Students whose families aren’t intact are less likely to receive sexual education, and are more likely to have a teenage pregnancy (Kohler, et al. 347-48). Teenage pregnancy is a problem which compounds as it progresses unless it is controlled in an effective way. In this case, that is teaching at safe

If teenagers had easy access to birth control and condoms, then teen pregnancies would start to decrease because they would be aware of how to be safe. They would use the help if they were informed on how to get contraceptives and where to get them from. There is a television show on MTV called Teen Mom; it’s all about 4 teenage girls who happened to get pregnant at a younger age than they expected. This show explains their life and the struggle they had to go through because they weren’t prepared when it came to sex. 3 out of the 4 girls kept their child and began to realize how hard it was. Those 3 girls also weren’t successful in their relationship due to the fact that they weren’t mature enough to balance out their life and 2 of them hadn’t even finished college yet because, they had to reorganize their lifestyle. In the show they have often mentioned that if they knew more about birth control and other ways to be protected; their chances of pregnancy would have been lower. Being a mother isn’t fun when you haven’t fully lived through your teenage years; if contraception was more available teenagers would not have to worry about being a mother at such a young

Now most abortions are from women who are in their twenties. But there are still many teenagers that go through with this procedure at a young age. If we could educate are kids about safe sex, during their middle school and high school years, that would drop a drastic amount of teen pregnancies. There should be an actual class where kids are required to take and pass, so they will know the outcome of their decisions. If you teach kids at a young age about sexual education, that will end up being a subconscious thought. When we do not educate our youth, we are most likely to repeat the past. I believe that our educators should be able to have these conversations with students, because the more they know, the better off they will be. Many people might argue that teaching kids about sex should be up to the parents, but many parents today lack the ability to have conversations with their children. We live in a different world today, and conversations like this need to happen. Pregnancies is not the only affect from unprotected sex. Teenagers can get sexually transmitted diseases from not using proper protection while having sex. This will not stop kids from having unprotected sex, but if we try to prevent it, then we might end up lowering the teen pregnancy

If parents educate their children on the proper ways to have safe sex early in their pubescent years there will be less teen pregnancies and abortions. Putting a child on birth control does not mean they are ready to have sex but if they start taking birth control early teens will be in a habit of taking the pill everyday.‘‘Besides the benefit of preventing unwanted pregnancy, hormonal birth control has also been shown to benefit women by regulating periods, reducing ovulation, and possibly reducing the risk of some types of ovarian cancer (gorlitsky 2017).’’ The rate for teenage pregnancies are at a record low in the United States since the 1940s, this is possible because birth control is affordable for many people with the price ranging from 0-40

Parents should be more involved in their teen’s life. They should be focusing on open communication, spending quality time with their children, and teaching them that every negative action has a consequence. Parents need to step up when it comes to the “sex talk” and explain what the consequences would be if they become pregnant. If a teen thinks they may have to quit school, get a job, and possibly move out of the home, they make think about it more often and take initiative to prevent pregnancy. Parents need to realize that their children aren’t perfect and that teen pregnancy can happen to them. They need to have that open door policy in effect at all times and should never judge nor criticize what their children may tell them. It is a parent’s job to direct their children in the right direction and provide support no matter the issue. Parental involvement is necessary in preventing teen pregnancy.