That all parents must attend parenting classes. We have drivings licenses to drive a car. Yet there’s no such skill requirements for parents on how to raise children.
Cost of dealing with miss raised children is very high.
Cost of dealing with miss raised children is very high.
Good luck with that!
I don't get the jump from parenting classes to "the correct approach".
Anyhow schooling is considered a Good Thing (tm) and nobody claims we should give up on it, because some shout that it's _wrong_.
There are legal expectations for parental behavior at a Societal level, and perhaps informally at a Community level. Is that enough?
Always thought a parental/guardian “report card” for those caring for school age children would be a good idea. We measure students and teachers, why not parents? Teachers rate parents on the educational support they provided their children and their teachers. Red/yellow/green, meaningful in child custody case and the like. Just an idea...
It's super easy to judge when you make a 6 figure salary and are highly educated. But most families aren't making that kind of coin.
But then: what harm would it do if you'd anyhow participate in a training, that, in said happy case, would just reiterate and reinforce what you'd do anyhow?
And has the society possibly gone awry exactly because some common sense in child bearing has been buried? Dunning Kruger tells us we might just not know what we don't know...
So, if the curriculum can be freely chosen for the "parental drivers license" what is the problem?
There is plenty of research on the outcomes of parental training, btw, one random example of a training that has proven useful:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=bris...