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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One afternoon last december, in Washington, DC, police was alerted by a person to pick up a brother and sister, who were walking a mile heading home, and take them to their parents. After the police took the kids home, he warned the kids’ father of potential dangers that his kids could have faced while walking unsupervised. (Griffin) These days, there are many other cases similar to this where kids walking home unsupervised are reported to authority and taken into supervision with their parents being warned in some ways as a consequence. So what makes kids walking home unsupervised such a nation-wide controversy? Free-range parenting. Nowadays, free-range parenting is quite a big issue as the world is changing so rapidly and is no longer the same world that parents in this generation could freely roam around in their own childhood. Some argue that free-range parenting is nothing more than a mere negligence over their children in that the world is now simply too dangerous for the children to explore on their own. They say that the world is no longer safe for a child to be outside alone and that so-called free-range parenting is just being irresponsible parents. However, they are wrong. Although free-range parenting may look so dangerous and unnecessarily risky, it, in fact, has far more advantages than disadvantages and is and has been an enormous necessity when raising children for a number of reasons: it makes

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

Parental kidnapping by a non-custodial parent is defined as “…the removal, concealment, detention or retention of a child from the other parent” (Johnston and Edwards, 2002). It has become a serious concern as the rates of these incidences continue to rise. According to an FBI investigation, from 2010 to 2012 the rate of abductions by a parent had increased from 9 percent to 50 percent. In most cases, the intent was to permanently prohibit the other parent from custodial access to their child by taking them out of state or the country. Until the 1960s and 1970s, this was not seen as an illegal or a major social problem. Sources have recognized the increase in divorce rates as a factor in why incidences of parental abduction have

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.

For as long as society can remember children have been captured, threatened, and contorted to fit the needs or wants of their captor. Every year over 20 million young, innocent children are captured, this leads to a massive hole in many parents hearts and households. The captors of these children lull the children into a false sense of security. Often times the captors are someone the child has met before, parents, neighboors, old family friends. They believe they have the child’s trust and lead them to days, weeks, months, years of despair. Children grow up too fast in these situations and they cant have a childhood when they spend half of it in the trunk of a car.

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.

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.

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

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.