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https://www.facebook.com/attn/videos/949767565058703/?pnref=story (Short video on Gender Neutral Parenting. Please watch before adding an argument)This video challenges how we view parenting. Should a girl be raised as a girl and a boy be raised as a boy (gender-based parenting)? Or should the child be raised gender neutral and be allowed to decide what they want for themselves (gender neutral parenting)?
If you are a parent, please enlighten us with your words of wisdom on raising children.
If you are a child, please enlighten us with what your parents have done that worked on you.
Should a parenting class be part of high school curriculum?
If so, should it be required or be an elective?
To make time for a parenting class other classes may need to be shortened. Which ones should be shortened?
What things should be included in the class? Here are some ideas.
Basic care like changing diapers, feeding, sleep schedules, child-proofing the house, potty training, etc.
Discipline
Understanding the different cognitive developmental stages of a child
Teaching children social skills
Food & nutrition
Dealing with autism and other common developmental disorders
Child care options
Educational options
Adoption
Parenting resources
Most Americans are blind to the underbelly of our society, in which millions of children and babies are neglected, abused, forgotten, and unloved.
Me, I'm for sterilization. Of course, that's never going to happen.
Is there anything else we can do to reduce the number of child abuse/neglect/endangerment cases?
By the way, it really is a downward spiral. Abused children are far more likely to grow into unstable adults who abuse THEIR children, and so on, and so on.
Would society benefit from requiring expecting(new) parents, by law, to attend and pass a basic parenting class to become "certified" to raise their child? With the rise of school shootings and political polarity at dangerous highs, the purpose of these parenting classes would be to reduce the extremism from parents who raise their children improperly or at a sub-par level. Discuss any direct or implied consequences such as rights to reproduction, derivation of moral values, or bodily autonomy.
I was reading reviews of the book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" and I was wondering which style or parenting is better, or is there some blend of the two. Should you push your child to the maximum and decide their lives for them, let them grow and learn on their own, or some middle ground?
Two single people or a lesbian and homosexual couple want to have a baby but they believe that both a male and female role is important to a child's development as is to know their biological ancestry. Therefore, they decide to have a child together a custody is split between the two individuals/couples. This is known as co-parenting. Would you do it?
The heterosexual two parents married to each other parenting thing is not an option for everyone. It is the best option, but nopt possible for everyone. What happens if Dad dies, Mom dies, and so on? My dear Mother raised me since I was 13 by herself, and I made it. There are worse things than being raised by a single parent.
1. Less than 3% of what they do is abortion related. And abortion is *not* NOT pulbically funded. I cannot emphasise that enough. 0 tax dollars go toward abortion anyway.
2. The vast majority of what they do is breast exams, cancer screening, etc.
3. Pregnancy prevention methods like the pill is estimated to prevent 2million unwanted births a year. This would equal aproximately 800k abortions according to statistics. Therefore it actually prevents abortions - it prevents far more abortions in fact than crazy people outside protesting.
4. For a large portion of women planned parenthood is the only place they can receive healthcare. It's estimated catching disease, providing reproductive care, etc is estimated to *save* billions a year. So ending it would actually increase our national debt in the long run.
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Even though it wouldn't hurt to have it done, the psychological evaluation and the "parenting class" as the debate says, thats not what I want. I want to see mothers who are having children being educated about children. There are many things to know and to learn. Infancy and what is needed to keep them healthy. The proper toys and activities at the proper age as they grow older. I want them to be taught what teachers, nannies and day care providers go through to be able to handle children on a daily basic. Just because a women is a women and she is having a baby does not mean she knows what she is doing. She can go to her mother, family/friends and a baby bog website but she will not learn what she really needs to learn and to know unless she wants to. Many mothers don't want to because of their personal life, they don't have time, they don't have money, they just don't care or maybe they don't even know that this is available to them. I believe it should be the hospitals that send out the information and encourage. I don't believe, unless someone starts a protest, that the gov't of the United States would take this as a law. Hospitals though, can do what they can to try and influence, and advertise a parenting program or ad to help them with their children.