Make Parenting Classes Mandatory in All Public High Schools

As more and more teens are becoming parents, it is important for them to be educated on how to effectively raise a child. They need to have more knowledge than the basics of finance and changing diapers. Parenting classes go more in depth on how to care for a child's emotional and health needs, as well as giving good advice to the future parents on how to deal with the stress it will put on them when they have a child. Teens are more likely to abuse and neglect their children than anyone else mostly because they simply lack the knowledge on how to effectively care for their children. These classes would help those teens that already have children, are pregnant, and those that plan to have children in a future. The next generation of parents needs to be better educated.