it is beyond me that still to this day, no courses or perhaps permit are required in order to become a prospective parent.

Governments don't exactly have a good record when they requite permits for things. There are tons of permits required for different jobs in America and other countries. They work to a certain degree with certain things, like medical licensing, or electrician licensing, because they really need those people to know what they're doing. But, often even those licenses aren't necessarily perfect. There are tons of other licenses for beauticians and painters and such that really only serve as a price barrier, keeping poor people out.

If you require a license for giving birth, it will probably very quickly be used to keep the poor from having kids, and defended with the excuse that they supposedly don't have the financial resources to support them. Financial concerns already keep a ton of people from having kids, despite America supposedly being better off than so many countries. Many of those poor people would be far better parents than many rich people.

And how long before statistics would show they were being used to keep people of color from having kids?

While parents really do need to learn how to raise kids and take care of them, there would be serious concerns if we did require something like licensing. I think instead it would be better to make parenting classes standard, and an elective for kids in high school, as well as free at community colleges. There are already some parenting classes, but there need to be even more.

Of course, we've also learned over the years that a lot of the things they've been teaching parents is bullshit and harmful to children. Like they used to tell parents to let their kids cry it out. Too bad that causes brain damage.

You can give your children your time, undivided attention, and so on – but if that time does not come with the loving essence of kindness, what good is it for?

Love is important. But it isn't everything. Hell, many abusive parents still "love" their kids.

I think more need to realize that they have to take time out of their days, regularly, to read with their children, teach them different things, do things with them, not just play. They need to have them at the table when they do their books and their taxes. They need to teach them all the things that for some reason school doesn't.