{"id":10191,"date":"2016-10-17T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T05:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=10191"},"modified":"2018-08-29T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T06:53:05","slug":"south-korea-plans-lifelong-parenting-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/south-korea-plans-lifelong-parenting-education\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Plans Lifelong Parenting Education"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Korea is planning to provide people with lifelong parenting education in the hope that it will prevent child abuse, it’s reported.<\/h6>\n
\n

Rather than only giving parents-to-be tips on coping with their new arrivals, the government has set out plans to start teaching the necessary skills from school age, the Korea Times reports<\/a>. The government also wants to see parenting lessons given to university students, men undertaking military service, and couples who are planning to tie the knot.<\/p>\n

“We have concluded that a one-time parenting course taken upon marriage or pregnancy would not be effective in instilling proper values in parents, and therefore have drawn up a plan to teach parenting throughout a person’s life,” an official from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family tells the website. While child-rearing knowledge was once passed down from one generation to the next, that’s not happening as much nowadays, the official says.<\/p>\n

South Korea has seen a number of high profile child abuse cases in recent years,\u00a0prompting the government<\/a> to tighten child protection laws. In 2012, a Ministry of Health and Welfare report found <\/a>that 86% of child abuse in South Korea takes place at home, and in 83% of cases the abuse is inflicted by parents.<\/p>\n

The new plans come on the heels of a court’s announcement that it will require<\/a>\u00a0divorcing parents to undergo education on preventing child abuse. The family court in the capital, Seoul, says lessons will be mandatory and a divorce won’t be granted if either spouse refuses to attend.<\/p>\n

\n

This article was originally published<\/a> on BBC.<\/p>\n

Image copyright\u00a0<\/span>ALAMY<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Korea is planning to provide people with lifelong parenting education in the hope that it will prevent child abuse, it’s reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,959],"tags":[1578,140,1770,392,946,976],"class_list":{"0":"post-10191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog-roll","8":"category-parenting-and-sexuality","9":"tag-child-abuse","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-parenting","13":"tag-parenting-and-sexuality","14":"tag-parenting-education"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14990,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions\/14990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}