Should bad parenting be penalized more?

[OddBeMe]

Not just slapping kids, but not spending time with them, coming to teacher conferences, feeding them right, etc.

We demand perfection from teachers but their problems are usually bad parenting.

Yes

No

Dont know

[kylee2437]

Absolutely. People don’t understand how trauma and mental illness is attached to how your parent/parents treated you as a child. I do think it’s not an easy topic though. You can have a parent not spending a lot of time with their child because they are out working trying to make a living to be able to provide. It’s such a broad concept.

[OddBeMe]

Very very true. And when i say penalize, perhaps I mean more social services and “training”.

I worked on a medicaid study where proteges are given help to guide them through the processes. And the results were astounding.

[AndrésC64]

I agree with both of you.

[Jenny-Marie]

I am not a great fan of social services. It seems to be rare that they make a sensible call. For instance, my neighbour's 7 year old daughter was being sexually assaulted by her 13 and 14 year old brothers and the mother still left them in charge while she went out socialising. Social services decided not to split the family and did nothing other than visit every so often.

[Smoke-n-Growls]

Honestly there should be a parenting license. It's impractical and if would never work, but in a perfect world I'd love to see it.

Tie it to tube tying or vasectomies (honestly vasectomies are easiest and most reliable to reverse, so maybe IUD and vasectomy), and have it reversed only after the parents pass a parenting license.

Forced sterilization is on the same level as war crime for me, though, so... I don't know. It's definitely not a practical solution.

[Jenny-Marie]

Who decides on the criteria? For example, when I caught my young daughter poking her pet rabbit with a stick, I let the rabbit out of the hutch, put my daughter in it and poked her. A punishment to suit the crime or cruelty?

[OddBeMe]

I mean... yeah good point. But I think we could find some child psychologists... I don't know, but overall, should the government be harsher? Or not involved?

[RolandCuthbert]

But how do you measure bad parenting? Some parents are better than others. If they are not abusing their children, no one should interfere. You can only provide support for them and hope they invest in it.

[MuddyMole]

In theory, but it's almost impossible to punish the parents without punishing the children as well.

[TroyDT]

Should the government be given more power? Hell no. There are already enough laws that get abused by CPS, while the same people fail to remove children from genuinely dangerous situations.

[Pudsmucker]

Yes, better education for the parents. Children can stretch you patiences.

[OddBeMe]

agreed. it would have to be forced parenting education. Either after they get preggers or in high school make it an elective.

What happened to home ec? is that still a course?

[Pudsmucker]

I think they stop having home economics. Spend about 20 years since I had a child in school.
We the people need to get involved with our schooling systems run for offices school boards they're the nuts that create the curriculum for our children today

[AndrésC64]

I'm not necessarily against the idea, but I don't know how practicable it would be.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Yes. They are the ones who cause disasters for the future generations

[Anonymous]

"We demand perfection from teachers"

LMAO... what planet are you from dude?

[Blackcosmo]

Yeah it's really important.

[exitseven]

There are parents out there that should be shot.

[OddBeMe]

Or prison

[NathanDavis]

for a change... I agree with you completely

[Msputiton]

Yes. Bad parenting scars children for life

[AsaKyo]

Yes, it really should

[msc545]

Also bad foster parenting.

[OddBeMe]

Any guardian, I’d say.

[msc545]

Yes, however the foster care system where I live is like the second circle of hell.

[OddBeMe]

I have heard that. Basically fraud for money and fck the children.

[msc545]

exactly.

[TheAfrikan]

For the safety of the young ones yeh.

[Jackblue]

Absolutely.

[Fuentes]

Of course