The assumptions of parenting education come from observations of others that peak interests when it comes to the interactions between parents and children, families and schools, and families and the society in which they live. Parenting education cover many topics that effect all families. Depending on what is happening within the family unit there is a parenting education program to help.

Parents relied on experts to help with parenting according to the religious mandates. Dr. G. Stanley Hall introduced the understanding of the development of children to understand how they learn. His approach was dismissed but the first National Congress of Mothers was born from his approach and then eventually became The Parent Teacher Association.

Big factors on the quality of parenting education is social media and technology and indulgent parenting. These factors have developed along with the changing family. Technology and social media that parents face raising children now that were not factors 20 years ago.