I agree with Marty. To illustrate the problem...

I've never had a Master Parent before -- perhaps because I'm not insane and have never ordered a villager to do nothing but breed for their entire life. So when I discovered that elderly women could still "do it" despite not being able to conceive, it occurred to me that this was finally my chance to have a Master Parent.

And so I picked a young male and.... Well, you can see where this is going. Parenting is the one skill where villagers INSTANTLY see an increase in the skill when a given action is performed. In other words, if you drag one villager onto another, if they are happy with the coupling the instigator will immediately get a boost to their Parenting skill. And so, with a young male villager and an elderly female villager, a couple hundred couplings is all it takes for the male villager to become a Master Parent.

Now forget that this is sort of a... cheat -- to be fair, the skill boost should not come until the couple has emerged from the Love Shack. But aside from that, just think about what's happening. A male villager is becoming a MASTER PARENT just by mating. The male hasn't fathered a single child, yet he's a Master Parent. Craziness!

So yes, I think females should get a huge boost for having a child. How many children does it take currently for a female villager to become a Master Parent? One of my females has had maybe four or five kids, and she's still just Adept. How many kids does it take before you're a Master? And how many game years does it take to become a Master in another skill? Seems like they should be comparable.

Although frankly, we all know that it's not the number of kids that makes you a "master". Hmm. Here's an interesting concept. How about tying a villager's Parenting skill to the success of their children? Villagers get a small boost for coupling. A larger boost for having a baby. And then their Parenting skill increases as their children's skills increase. Hmm, I say.