Should Parents Raise Their Kids?

Should parenting classes be required? If you think about it that’s not really a bad idea. Right now it’s just an elective, but by the time that high school kids want it or need it it’s too late. That is a well needed life skill. Students complain about not learning anything about life when they could it’s just not required. Also if a student took a parenting class they might realize how much work it is to take care of a kid and be more careful. Which in turn would bring the teen pregnancy rate. The reasons a parenting class should be state required is because too many teens get pregnant every year, most parents have been imprisoned at least one in their life, and some kids go to foster care because the parent doesn’t know how to take care of them.

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.

According to the (Association, 2015) there is insignificant acknowledgement of parental insistence. In the last several year in the United States the countless number of children under 5 years of age are killed, nevertheless they are murdered by the hands of their parents which is a high percentage that can be equally put in separation with mother and father.

Many people say that parents take care of their kids a certain way through what they believe in or were they came from. Some parents believe that the only way the child will learn from their mistake is by physically punishing them. People think that we shouldn’t get involved because it’s not our problem. In the article, “U.S. Title: Fixing Foster Care: Fostering stability,” proves that there have been cases where parents have been caught in abusing their child but the court would usually side with them. It says, “Courts have long held that parents have a fundamental right to raise their children as they see fit, and that social and cultural norms for attention, affection, supervision, and discipline vary widely.”

Neglect and abuse towards children still occurs in society today as it did in pre-industrial times. Adult control over children can take the extreme form of physical neglect, or physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. Some may say due to figures from charities such as Child Line rising there is a ‘dark side’ to family life, where children are victims. This shows in some cases the status of children hasn’t changed over time.

They cannot control their children's actions or doings. Parents can be overprotective which is not a good thing even though the parents are trying their best. Overprotectiveness would still lead the kids to committing crimes. So if parents do not have to be contacted then why should they have to be the ones that get punished for a crime that they didn't even commit. Parents most definitely should not be held responsible for a crime that they didn't commit, but if they persuaded a child to do it it would be a completely different matter. Anyway there is no reason that the parent should be held responsible for their child's

There are many problems with abusing and neglecting children besides the obvious reason, hurting the kids.

Countless number of children that are removed from their homes should not have been. In New York alone, just as the police have to distribute a certain amount of citations a month, CPS workers are required by law to remove a certain amount of children a month to meet their quota. I believe that when a crime is committed against a child, police action should be take a s a necessary procedure to properly investigate and gather accurate evidence of abuse, therefore giving the accused fair due process.

Not all parents can watch their child 24/7 ¨should parents be held accountable¨Parents can't know everything that is going on with their child, they can't read their mind. It is very unlikely parents can read minds. Some parents work ,and kids go to school. Parents don't usually stay with their kids in school. That is why not all parents can watch their children 24/7.

Having and raising children is one of our basic human rights, or is it? What is the correct way to raise a child? Who gets to decide whether or not it is being done appropriately? Should a parent have the freedom to instill their family 's values on their own children, or should the current government dictate the values we pass generationally down to our offspring? Opinions on this topic are innumerable. Canada is a multicultural country, by its very nature we will have diversity in the way our children are raised. Due to the lack of cohesion between the government and parents views on raising children, it has been very confusing for the next generation to know what is expected of them. It has been said that the next generation lacks hope

The Western countries are no exception in this case. A chilling national poll of U.S. children ages 3 through 12 estimated that nearly 75 million youngsters suffer both physical and psychological abuse at the hands of their parents on a daily basis. In Los Angeles, a woman killed her daughter because the child was irritating her while watching television. Ironically, a television program bears more importance than a child’s life. Being a single parent is a common practice in the western countries. These single parents then throw their children in day care centres because they fail to look after them. Shouldn’t this be regulated by the State?

The second real life scenario that we’ll be investigating in relation to the knowledge question, “How much control and pressure should parents exert over children?” is the lives of child prodigies.

Whether or not parents should vaccinate their children has been something many parents have had to contemplate since the creation of the first vaccine in 1796. There is the constant battle of whether they should protect their kids against diseases or refrain from pricking them with a multitude of vaccines that could contain ingredients that go against their beliefs. Some vaccines contain ingredients such as aborted fetal tissue or animal residue which many parents think is unethical to inject into their children. In most states schools require children to receive certain vaccines before they can attend school. This is a national requirement so states can alter it to how they want to interpret it. Because of this, there are many ways to get around actually getting them. All fifty states allow schools to accept exemptions for the crucial vaccines that students are “required” to get. It started off with religious exemptions but now you can get an exemption for just about any reason. Today, there are medical, religious, philosophical, conscientious and personal belief exemptions (“State Law and Vaccine Requirements”). As a result of exemptions many children are not receiving essential vaccines, allowing for many horrible diseases to return.

An abduction is the unlawful taking of a minor from the control of their parent. A kidnapping is where the child is detained, taken away more than a specified distance from where it was abducted, and is held for ransom money, or the child is taken to keep them permanently. Most of these kidnappings involve children, specifically female between the ages of 10-17 with the average age being 11. When children are kidnapped, statistics reveal that over 40% of the incidents end with the death of the child.

Through the entire interview process, four of the eleven participants, two males, one was in the younger age group and the other was in the older age group, and two females, again with one from each group, explicitly said what my research has explained: children raised by gay parents learn to become more open towards others than children raised by straight parents. All of the participants gave answers that aligned with my research on the kind of parent a child needs and what a healthy household consists of. Each contributor believed that love and support, as well as a handful of other qualities leads to a well-developed child. The handful of qualities mentioned by informants were: stable, mature, and responsible. Informants believe a parent should be someone who is capable of caring for someone else. No one mentioned a single thing about the sexual orientation required to be a good parent; society does not take sexual orientation into consideration when describing who could be a good parent.