Will trained parenting skills for ages 3-18 years of age reduce the statistics of abused & neglected children?

Children begin playing with dolls at a young age..as toddlers. Today the parenting classes are limited to the parents who are all ready facing crimes for abuse and/or neglect charges to their children.


Nurses, as well as educated professionals will be the teachers; the method is by playing with the dolls as toddlers on up to college students on a much more professional level.


Please let me know what you think, and thank you for you opinion and thoughts on the matter.Will trained parenting skills for ages 3-18 years of age reduce the statistics of abused %26amp; neglected children?
Many people become perfectly good parents without parenting classes. While parenting training may be of some benefit, I don't think that the effect will be huge. I don't think that lack of training is the issue in child abuse. Much more often the issue is anger, pedophilia, mental illness, stress of poverty. Some people who abuse children are sociopaths or psychopaths, and training will not be the answer with them. So the money spent for such training could probably have a greater effect if spent on alleviating child poverty and offering parenting training to the people who actually have children and are struggling.Will trained parenting skills for ages 3-18 years of age reduce the statistics of abused %26amp; neglected children?
I think it would. In my high school parenting skill classes were offered as electives but weren't required.