No. I'm not sure how it would be enforced, anyway. Not give a couple their child? That would be a bit ridiculous.Should parents be required to take a parenting class during the hospital stay when the baby is born?
There might be a benefit to such a class before the birth, but right after the baby is born, a class is the last thing they'll have time or attention for. (And even if they sat through it, they're not in a frame of mind in which they'd retain any of the information.)
However, just because something ';might'; be of ';benefit'; is not adequate rationale for making it a federal requirement.
No. We need the government out of our lives.
During a short hospital stay, parents need to get used to taking care of their new child. They are too busy for some silly class! Their natural protective instincts will tell them more than any parenting class ever could.
We have enough government decision making. There are many parenting classes available in my area and persons who attend willingly are more likely to learn.
Parenting begins BEFORE they have the baby.
There is too much going on (recuperating, realizing you now have to care for someone 24/7 for the next 18 years and beyond), setting up home and schedule, etc., to try to learn anything else.
Forcing parents to take a class is wrong on so many levels. First of all, in time, what they are teaching could easily be found to be incorrect. Remember when Bottle feeding used to be far better then breast feeding? What happens when these forced classes give misinformation? Who's going to held responsible if this information that results in harm to a child?
What do you recommend happen to a parent that doesn't take the class? Prison? Fines? How are you going to pay for the bureaucrats that administer and check on who has and hasn't taken the test? Are you suggesting that the parents pay for it? because having a child is costly enough without tacking on this kind of unnecessary system. How many classes are enough for you? Are you going to force parents to take time off work? Are you going to compensate them for missed hours?
What problem are you hoping to solve my forcing parents to take this class? When people start looking for answers to problems that don't exist they're asking for trouble.
Humanity has survived how many thousand years without mandated baby classes, I think we'll manage without them for a while longer.
Because we want insurance premiums to go up so that the mother of six can get her sixth parenting class? You certainly can't mandate and then allow insurers to not pay for it. What about the person who decides to use a midwife instead, maybe because they don't want to take the class for some reason. There won't be many, but those who would do it for that reason (possibly endangering the baby) are going to be the worst parents. Can you mandate that the new mother not sleep through the class? Will there be a test following, with babies taken from the mothers who don't make the cut? What about fathers? They aren't patients, so you can't very well force them. The mere action of mandating a class versus making someone pay for it, would reduce the value of the class in many people's eyes, causing them to take it less seriously.
maybe teenage pregnancys, but not anyone older
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