Morality and ethical views are diverse in nature. There is no specific or direct approach that is considered to as the correct one. This is simply because people have different values that they believe in and therefore, influences their perspective as far as morality and ethics is concerned. This also applies to children, morality and ethical views differ from one child to another in relation to the age group they are in at the moment. However, there is also difference in morality and ethical views of boys and girls when approaching moral dilemmas and ethical issues. This essay is aimed at a comprehensive analysis of the difference in the moral and ethical approach to dilemmas gender and children age group put …show more content…
He prioritizes issued according to the degree of importance or urgency while keeping an open mind to the rules and laws put in place. He advocates for stealing the drugs and in an instance where Heinz is caught, then he is confident enough that the judge will understand the reason behind. On the other side, Amy’s approach in about building relationships and she believes that communication is the only way out of the dilemma. She fails to recognize and make use of the dilemma’s internal structure but decides to reconstruct the problem differently and by so doing misses the whole concept. Both children however, appreciate the need for agreement for mediation but from different point of views. Jake recognized the need for agreement in mediation in terms of logic and law while Amy from a perspective of building a relationship and communication. However, Amy’s approached the whole situation from a point of naivety while Jake from a point of rational thinking which makes her considered as cognitive immature as compared to …show more content…
Here, a difference occurs between self-definition through separation and self-demarcation through relationships and connection as expressed by Amy. Furthermore, through a recount of Jake’s sentiments he expresses a self-measured level of perfection and self-belief while on the other hand Amy expresses a sort of self-assessment through particular activities of care. The manifestation of these different senses of moral orientation or development clearly comes when they are presented with a responsibility dilemma about a woman on her commitment to work and to family relations. The inclination towards either care and connection by building relationships and resolving to structured systems such as law and justice, may prompt some individuals to think that, one is from a point of naivety while the other is from an informed point respectively. This is not always the case, in as much as people would like to believe that male respond to issues by reason while females respond by feeling, it all boils down to the societal responsibility of the different genders. According to Kohlberg (1981), men are encouraged to be independent and serve, therefore, this responsibility causes them to respond to moral issues by solving the conflict by applying social rules set by the society. Females