Harris (1996) Argued That If You Left a Group of Children

question 84

Essay

Harris (1996) argued that if you left a group of children with their same schools, neighborhoods, and peers but switched parents, those children "would develop into the same sort of adults." What then is the role of parenting? How do parents influence the development of their children?

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Definitions:

Conscience

An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

Reason

The mental capacity to logically identify, analyze, and integrate information to form conclusions or judgments.

Cultural Relativist

Someone who believes that moral and ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really "better" than another.

Morally Required

Actions or behaviors that are considered necessary according to ethical or moral principles.