Since licenses and classes are required for many other things in life, why is this not done with parenting?

1) do u relize how many children would be up for adoption???

2) Anyone could lie on a test

3) there are people who can seem like a good parent infront of other people but be beating or molesting their kids on the side lines.

I agree there are alot of bad parents out there but what can you do.

I dont think that classes would teach you how to raise a child. Afterall not all things work for every child. My nephews are like night and day so are my son and my daughter and then lets not go there about my step daughter. My husband prior to meeting me did take parenting classes for his daughter and i personally think they didnt do any good infact they told him to LET HER MAKE RULES and let her have a say in what goes on in the home. She is now 6 and the worst child in the world to deal with infact yesterday I told him he needed to stop treating her like an adult she is a child. And for those of you that feel parenting classes would benifit you they are available in most cities through your social service departments

By the way who would pay for all these classes?

Wouldn't decrease the number of negligent parents. It would just jam-pack the foster care system, and some of them are horrendous (foster dad in my state in deep trouble for raping his foster daughters for years and talking his way out of it when the girls fessed up to his atrocities). Wouldn't help the problem. And too many people who would be good parents would never get that chance to be one.....

I think that's the best law we could ever pass.

I know i wish i could have had or even still go through some kind of class on parenting, I'm a single dad and boy i tell you its been allllooottt harder then i ever expected.

There are so many things people don't think about before becoming parents.

Parenting, done properly, is one of the hardest jobs in the world, but it's one of the easiest to get into. True, some people shouldn't even be allowed NEAR children, let alone being given the responsibility of bringing them up. Preventing unsuitable people from become parents (and who is to decide whether they are or or not suitable?) might prevent problems, but would be incredibly difficult to police.

i have thought this same thing for many years. you have to have a license to hunt, fish, own a gun, even have a dog, but they will let any moron off the street raise a child.

Because life is hilarously ironic and cruel.