Young Mothers should be made too!!!!!?

Question

How many of you think that young mothers should be made to go to parenting classes by the law. You here so much about young mothers babies dying or coming up missing or being shook to death, makes me wonder should this be a law. I know it sounds bad and we shouldn't make anyone do anything they don't want, but just like we need to train for driving, why not parenting, Not saying it will stop the loss of babies but it mite help. Just wanted to know what others think!!! ~~~ I recived this story for another member on answer http://cbs5.com/topstories/topstories_story_265131050.html
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Thanks to member Sarajbc85 for your story and link...

Too all the people who are responding to my question, I know that a lot of mothers of all ages have done things to there children and fathers, I'm just thinking about the story that is link to the question. It was a young mother who was drunk and had a bucket on the side of her bed in case she got sick and her baby fell in and drown to death in her mothers vomit. I just here a lot of cases of young mothers having trouble raising their kids and no one wanted to help them with this, I'm 32 and i am 23 weeks pregnant and I am reading, listen, study everything I can about children. I know I can't be the perfect mom and its know such thing, but i want to feel some what prepared for my baby, and some mothers are not prepared. I'm not getting down on the young mothers or older mothers I just making a statement for people to wake up too. If you have friend and she is doing something that you know is wrong and she doing it to her child, be a friend and teach her or try. Thats all I'm saying.

In my first statement I made a grammer mistake thanks teach for the help. But anyway, In my second statement I voice that I know father's and older adults make errors too. like Susan Smith, She was 25 years old when she felt she had to murder her children. Little boy mother in Michigan claim her son went missing in Target Department store and they never found him, everyone feels she kill her child and she was 36 and she had another. So its a lot of mothers and fathers out there and for the young mothers that was displease with my question I'm sorry, its how I feel. And if my teacher wants to correct my grammer again, I seen my thanks out ahead of time. LOL

Answer 1

You are a very smart lady, that is an excellent idea, for young mothers to get classes, they can be included with their prenatal treatment. This is a wonderful idea, I will throw it out there in the next Public Safety Coordinating Council I will go to maybe they will listen, it just takes one person to start and the rest to follow.
Thank you, I will let you know what happens.

Answer 2

Yes , I agree . I was 16 when I got pregnant with my daughter and I took classes from Florence Crinton ( it is a home for teen mothers but they also have classes ) . I learned a lot from these classes . And would recommend them to everyone , Not just teens but all first time mothers . That story is horrible . And I think the group home should also be held responsible as well as the mother . Someone should have noticed an infant in a bucket . And the girl was aloud to go get slobbering drunk then come home and tend to an infant . What is wrong with this picture . It is out right disturbing .

Answer 3

While that may be true there are young mother's who know what they're doing. I myself may be pregnant but I'm fully aware and capable to do what it takes to raise a kid the right way. And if you're going down that road, what about fathers? A lot of fathers end up with babies dead or missing or severly hurt in their care as well. And what about the older mother's whose kids die on them or get Shaken Baby Syndrome or go missing??? With that topic you can't just sujegst young mothers. Why not all expecting parents in general??? Why not anyone who thinks they are pregnant with the fathers too? And that doesn't mean it will stop it just means that people will know more about what theyre doing and in a lot of cases get ideas on how to do it better.

Answer 4

There are bad old and young Mother's. Every new mother should go to a parenting class. Then all mother's should go every few years after to re-learn. We have so many messed up kids out there and over weight kids too. Parents act to busy now these days to work with there kids and take great care of them. Kids are the most important. They need the education now and always!!! Don't want bad kids since they had bad mother's and father's. Father's should have a class too!!!

Answer 5

The age does not matter at all. Some older mothers really need to go to parenting classes too. I mean, you don't know how to take care of a baby until you actually have one. So I think EVERYONE should have to take parenting classes, even the Fathers. The Fathers shouldn't be singled out at all, they are also going to be taking care of the baby.

Answer 6

I posted a link to that tragic article with my most recent question. The problem is that no one thinks such a law should apply to THEM!

I was in my 40s when I had my first, and had a doctorate by then, and STILL found there were lots of things I did not know. I think EVERYONE should have to take a full course with their first child and a shorter course with every subsequent child. My husband and I both took an eight week course which met a couple of nights a week.

I hope the course would, of course, provide adequate child-care, also something wantonly absent in our current culture.

Answer 7

That sounds like an excellent idea, but not just for young mothers. In American society, equality is too important. I admit, there are quite a few young women who just don't have the resources to be a good mother, however, there are plenty of older women who do stupid things. (like leaving kids in locked car on a hot day, drowning them because marriage dissolved, etc.)
As a young woman (22), I would be offended if I chose to have children right now and someone told me I had to take classes because of my age. I personally am ready to have kids, but not financially, and my husband works too much.
I think it may be more important to examine sex at an early age, and also unprotected sex.

Answer 8

You also hear so much about ALL kinds of babies dying, coming up missing, or being shook to death with young, middle-aged, or old mothers. It's not just young mothers. I think if there was a manditory parenting class ALL mothers should take it. Most hospitals now make you watch movies and learn things before you leave the hospital. While this is sad you shouldn't blame it on all young mothers!

Answer 9

I think any time you turn on the t.v. or read the newspaper you will inevitably hear something disturbing being done to children and as horrible as that is i don't really think it is attributed only to young mothers. Of course maybe I'm bias since I had my first child when I was 16 but even if I hadn't I would have to disagree. Anyway i think thousands of mothers have babies who could probably use parenting classes but if they don't care enough to voluntarily take them it wouldn't help any.

Answer 10

properly, I grew to grow to be a parent as a teenager, as quickly as I had my son. Later in life (13 years later, to be superb) we accompanied 2 babies, so I grew to grow to be a mom back, at an older age. in accordance to my reports, this is how I see the experts and cons: youthful mothers have extra potential (this may well be a large one), additionally, i will connect with my teenage son o.k. by way of fact we don't have 20-30 years of generational distinction between us. subjects that are suitable to young ones now, have been additionally suitable while i grew to become right into a teenager. youthful mothers won't be financially take care of. this would not impact parental love, or the flexibility to be a sturdy parent, yet bobbing up short on the month-to-month expenses finally ends up in distinctive rigidity. additionally, youthful mothers won't have the emotional adulthood to truly placed a toddler's desires formerly their own. Older mothers have extra life journey and (with any luck) the know-how that is going alongside with that. they are regularly extra financially take care of and don't have that further rigidity. whether, older mothers don't have that run around all day potential that their youthful opposite numbers do. sometimes a important generational distinction may bring about communications breakdown if young ones evaluate their mum and dad to be dinosaurs that purely don't comprehend.

Answer 11

Unfortunately I think it is more of an issue with being "socially retarded" than anything. There's many times a history of young mothers having babies that go on to be young mothers themselves. Kinda like people on wellfare breed more people on wellfare. When you live it, it becomes acceptable and "normal".

I feel like I can comment because I had my oldest son when I was 17. I took parenting classes and feel they were definitely beneficial. They should be required for all mothers, and yes- young ones in particular.