Gill Coverdale, a senior lecturer in community nursing at Leeds Metropolitan University, said: "Parenting skills need to start in the classroom and should continue to be taught during ante-natal and post-natal care.
"People should get support as a parent throughout all of their lives."
Duncan Fisher, chief executive of Fathers Direct, which is now known as the Fatherhood Institute, agreed there are issues that need to be dealt with in schools.
"Young men don't think about these issues until they are in that situation," he said.
A spokeswoman for the Family and Parenting Institute said: "This can only be a good thing, but it must be taught responsibly and sensibly.
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