@Marodr13 I know you are fairly new to fluther, welcome by the way, so you are unaware about how much I harp on teen pregnancy, and how concerned I am about it, and feel it is a major contributing factor to many of our problems in society today, especially poverty. I don’t think a teen getting pregnant is them wanting to grow up too fast. I think teens want to grow up, and act adult, because adults appear to be free relatively speaking. I think teen pregnancy has more to do with teens not accepting, or believing, there are consequences to actions, misinformation, and being pressured to have sex before they are ready. The realities of having and rasing a baby, how difficult, exhausting, and time consuming it is, is not even understood by most adults before they have a baby. I think teens need to have goals and future plans, something to look forward to that having a baby will screw up. I think the teens most likely to get pregnant are those who have no hope regarding the future, but of course any teen can make a mistake, even when everything is done right parenting them, and educating them.
About the state. I think we need to know exactly what the state will be looking at regarding parenting. Already the state can intervene if a child is being beaten or neglected. I don’t think we want the state to be able to evaluate the IQ of a parent, how much money the parent has, if they are married, or gay, literate, or whatever else someone might come up with.
Now, how are you going to make this class mandatory to take and pass? When a woman becomes pregnant she has to take a class and pass, or her baby is taken away when it is born?