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South Korea is planning to provide people with lifelong parenting education in the hope that it will prevent child abuse, it's reported.

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 government also wants to see parenting lessons given to university students, men undertaking military service, and couples who are planning to tie the knot.

"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.

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

The new plans come on the heels of a court's announcement that it divorcing 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.

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