Morality in Family

Introduction

The local understandings of family and tradition dictate the prioritization of family stability, provide norms for acceptable behavior within the family setting, and justify the choice to live in an impoverished rural community. Finally, moral discourses around the family and gender norms facilitate adaptation to the new structural conditions. Economic and labor market changes have produced a crisis in masculine identity, which flexible gender discourses around active fathering can help to resolve.

“Family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family.”

The family is a company with more human, which can be managed effectively through sincere efforts and commitments. The commitments should be visible in many crucial areas. Through this paper, I will target my study to the moral support we can give to each of the members who compose family.

Thesis statement

The paper discusses about the importance of morality in family, it explores the significance and norms to people living on the margins of U.S society, who experience extreme labor market and economic stress, but choose to see themselves as inheritors of some versions of the American Dream.

Discussion and analysis

Marriage and family relate to each other as cause and effect: the family comes from the marriage. It is true that today's culture sector offers other family models resulting from various combinations: stable unions without permanent link or even male or female homosexual union. But the Christian faith, with a serious anthropological and supported in the teaching of Scripture, says the family based on marriage as a stable institution, legally recognized, which guarantees not only the mutual rights and duties, but also with children born in marriage. The new type of family they propose is the effect these social sectors, and partly cause of a crisis affecting the family institution. This crisis is denounced by representatives of nearly all public institutions, civil and ecclesiastical (Joyce, 2006, 70-74).

Both positive and negative aspects are signs that the family undergoes changes in the concrete form made through history. In this sense, it is advisable not to put too much emphasis on the word "crisis"; it means that some elements are replaced. It is logical that the family meets the sensibilities of the time.

What is morality?

The general definition is that it has to do with what is right and what is wrong. However, according to cognitive scientists, sociologists, and philosophers, there is more to morality. Firstly, morality is a conceptual system. Secondly, it is a socially shared cultural system within a given community. Thirdly, it is experientially based.

In most communities, regardless of their specific culture and specific morality systems, children are taught from very early on what is moral and immoral. In most modern societies, it is the role of the parents to guarantee the well-being of their children until they are able to take care of themselves. Parents who fail to do so are typically considered immoral. It is also the role of the parents to educate their ...