Class Number: 25 TOPIC: Family Breakdown leads to moral degradation
Name: Raven Valerie F. Marasigan Grade & Section: 10-St.Cecilia Highlight key phrase/sentences that you borrowed or Make sure to align ideas you borrowed from the original source. Follow the copied from the original source. Follow the in-text worksheet) citation in the worksheet) Indention: 5 spaces from left margin I. The influence of families on their children greatly affect their values and lifestyles. Bibliography a. In the formation of children's morals, no Online: A Blog Post outside influence is greater than that of Anonymous (n.d.). The Family Influence on Children's Morals the family. Through punishment, Retrieved October 07, 2018, from reinforcement and both direct and indirect https://education.gov.gy/web/index.php/parenting-tips/item/1702-the- teaching, families instill morals in family-influence-on-children-s-morals children, and help them to develop beliefs that reflect the values of their culture. (Anonymous, n.d.) Online: A Blog Post b. The environment that children grow up in Hartline, K. D. (2017, August 14). The Family's Influence on a Child's certainly has some impact on what type of Personality. Retrieved October 09, 2018, from personality characteristics they develop. https://www.livestrong.com/article/492708-the-familys-influence-on-a- If families are high conflict, and the childs-personality/ children are drawn into many arguments and disagreements, they are much more likely to become withdrawn or have a personality that is conflict-driven as they grow older. In addition, if a family does not have any sort of structure within the household, children will be much more impulsive and may get into trouble more often than children who come from Online: A Blog Post structured households. (Hartline, 2017) Anonymous (1998, October 15). We Are What We See: The Family c. Within the family, there are three key Conditions for Modeling Values for Children. Retrieved October 07, 2018, processes by which children learn from http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Popenoe/Popenoe-Modeling.html character and morality: forming emotional attachments, being taught prosocial behavior, and learning respect for authority and compliance with rules. All teaching of right and wrong begins with attachment--the warm, emotional tie that children have with their parents. Children learn from and are influenced most by those persons who are most meaningful to them, and the most meaningful adults are those to whom the child is emotionally attached. If a child does not have a strong emotional attachment to a parent, the effectiveness of the parent as a teacher Online: A Blog Post and moral guide is greatly diminished. Anonymous (2018, February 25) Moral breakdown. Retrieved October (Anonymous, 1998) II. Moral degradation is becoming a more 07, 2018, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_breakdown pressing issue in today’s society. a. Moral breakdown, or moral degradation, is a phenomenon in which a major degradation or complete loss of values takes place within a particular society. (Anonymous, 2018) b. These moral breakdowns occur more regularly in today’s generation. Examples of these are lack of simple manners when passing in a crowded public zone, basic decency to strangers, and even perspective into the world. When before, you could walk the streets in the Philippines with a sense of security, and even start commuting at a young age, these days, those situations are Online: An Article in an Online Magazine not Published in Print non-existent. Simple concern for passing Saquib, Amna. (2017, July 14). Degradation of Moral Values. Pakistan pedestrians on the street, the following of Observer. Retrieved October 07, 2018, from basic road signs, and respect for women are https://pakobserver.net/degradation-moral-values/ rare traits found in the present. c. Moral values and graciousness, in the past, were more common in most teenagers. Majority of the youth then learnt respect, courtesy, consideration, decency, propriety, honesty and righteousness from a young age, and had enough self-discipline to hold to these values. Unlike in the past, where moral values and self-discipline were the norm, they are insufficient in today’s younger generation. However, these moral values and self-discipline are gradually losing ground over the years, as most of the younger generations are steadily disregarding these ethics. (Saquib, 2017) d. Moral degradation has become more rampant in today’s generation due to misguided upbringing. Parents have become more and more busy, lessening the time spent with family. Less time leads to less An Article in an Online Magazine not Published in Print communication and more misunderstandings, Weissbourd, R. (2002, July 02). Moral Parent, Moral Child. The thus introducing family breakdowns. American Prospect. Retrieved October 09, 2018, from III. Family breakdowns are a large factor in http://prospect.org/article/moral-parent-moral-child moral degradation. a. Children in single-parent families, to be sure, face obstacles to developing important moral qualities. Ethical development is rooted in emotional development, and children in single- parent families may suffer more persistently from those feelings -- shame, distrust, cynicism -- that commonly eat away at children's capacities for caring, responsibility, idealism, and other important moral qualities. In the wake of a divorce, for example, adolescents frequently suffer sharp disillusionment -- a loss of idealized images of their parents and of the ideals these parents represent. After a divorce, large numbers of children both suffer the shame of poverty and are abandoned by their fathers (10 years after a divorce, two-thirds of children haven't Online: A Blog Post seen their father in a year and have Green, A. (2017, June 13). What Are the Causes of Teenagers' Lack of effectively lost contact with their fathers). Moral Values & Self-Discipline? Retrieved October 09, 2018, from This is not the soil out of which idealism https://www.livestrong.com/article/1007053-causes-teenagers-lack-moral- and a sense of responsibility for others values-selfdiscipline/ can easily grow. (Weissbourd, 2002) b. Although teenagers may not have the same decision-making capacity as adults, parental influences can affect the way that a teen behaves and makes choices. In particular, parental behavior plays an important role in how teenagers make decisions. For example, if a teenager sees his parents acting impulsively or making poor choices such as neglecting household responsibilities or skipping work, the teen might believe that he is Online: A Blog Post entitled to make similar choices. Similarly, R. (1970, January 01). Moral Values among youth. Retrieved October parents or caregivers abuse or neglect 09, 2018, from http://rajeshshuklajnv.blogspot.com/2011/09/degeneration- children, they may develop immoral or of-moral-values-in-youth.html impulsive behaviors, explains the Child Welfare Information Gateway. (Green, 2017) c. In a nuclear family especially where father and mother both are working, have no time to share with their child. The feelings and emotions of child remained un entertained, so the child finds some other places like TV, peer group, bad literature etc. to share feelings and emotions and start behaving immorally as revolt. (R, 1970) d. Even though we have established the fact that family environment and influence has a large impact on a person’s moral development, this does not mean that all people with broken families will have morals that are no longer intact. People have different reactions, therefore the values developed in each person still all differ, broken family or not.