In modern day Britain when parents are expecting a baby it is fairly natural and nearly expected that parents will attend anti-natal courses to prepare them for the birth and perhaps the first 6 months of their child’s life. Somehow however there is still a feeling in modern day society that once you are via this initial stage of your child’s life the rest come naturally and that parenting is an instinctive skill that we should all have.
If any aid was required then new parents would typically have looked to their parents and wider family for parenting tips and parenting assistance. Even so in a lot more contemporary rapidly moving societies like Britain nowadays family units are much far more mobile and fragmented and therefore typically this ‘traditional’ support is no longer accessible. This has left a vacuum for parents who usually are faced with challenges in bringing up their kids that they do not know how to deal with no family support to assist them.