Should there be a 'parenting' skill?

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Originally Posted by Perfect Organism

This means that most people will be able to get by with default rolls, those with good social skills (or just good attributes to base their social skills off) will generally be slightly better parents than average, people with exceptionally bad social skills (whether from low attributes or disadvantages) will be worse than average at raising children and some parents could justify putting a couple of points into skills like Leadership or Teaching (or the Dabbler perk for such skills) simply from being parents.

The thing is that people who have good social skills generally still experience raising that first child as a new and challenging task. And lots of people acquire expertise in it who don't thereby become superb at dealing with more general social situations. I suppose you could model it as a bunch of optional specializations of things like Fast-Talk and Diplomacy, but I think it's easier to put it all together.

Bill Stoddard