Enforcing adult belief structures on children, such as through practices like FGM, certain religious customs, or hunting animals for sports/entertainment, raises significant moral and ethical challenges. This act involves imposing beliefs that children have not chosen for themselves, presenting a complex ethical dilemma between tradition and autonomy. It is considered an abuse of a child's rights to subject them to practices like FGM without their consent. The sanctification of parenting and parental religious beliefs can influence the moral socialization of young children, highlighting the impact of parental beliefs on children's development. The debate surrounding enforcing adult beliefs on children underscores the delicate balance between …show more content…
Parental Rights: Another objection might emphasize parental rights to pass down cultural or religious traditions to their children, suggesting that parents have the authority to instill these beliefs in their offspring. Defense: Universal Human Rights: Despite cultural differences, there are universal human rights that should not be violated, such as the right to bodily integrity and autonomy. These rights should take precedence over cultural practices like FGM. Child's Autonomy: Respecting a child's autonomy means allowing them to make informed choices about their beliefs and practices as they mature. Enforcing adult beliefs restricts this autonomy and can lead to psychological harm or conflict. Expanding on this topic further, it is crucial to delve into the long-term effects of imposing adult belief structures on children who have not chosen them willingly. Such actions can have profound psychological impacts on individuals as they grow older and may lead to internal conflicts between imposed beliefs and personal values. Children who are subjected to practices like FGM or forced religious indoctrination may experience feelings of alienation, resentment, or confusion as they navigate their identities in relation to these imposed
I argue that female genital mutilation (FGM) should not be covered under the universal code of ethics when dealing with cultural tolerance, parents should not be able to make harmful decisions for their children, and doctors are under no obligation to perform such rituals to conform to the beliefs and traditions of their patients such as in cases of
Teenagers often wish their parents would leave them alone. However, in Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, Esch Batiste wishes just the opposite. With her mother dead and her father distant, she lacks a guiding force in life. Parents should be the first and longest lasting teachers in a child’s life, passing on lessons and offering support for their growth. Not having parental figures is tragically detrimental to a child’s maturation, leaving them alone to figure out the world, which often comes with the cost of making misinformed decisions. As Esch is thrust into adult life, she strains to remember the teachings of her mother and is often left lonely and without instructions on how to stay alive and love herself as a woman. Esch relies on her
Their attitude towards discipline were very different from the white social workers that bought them together. They believe in physical punishment but no shouting, only talking nicely. If a parent shout he is out of control and it is abusive according to them. Good parenting is a complex combination of warmth, teaching, talking nicely and disciplining physically. But you can’t punish too harshly then you are doing it wrong. Interesting enough studies showed that in some cases children did respond positively to physical punishment. The difference seem to be that in black communities the punishment are culturally approved and given in a supportive environment in the aim to help the child to become responsible adults. Whereas in white communities they believe physical punishment is wrong so by the time resort to it they are highly agitated and the child might view it as
The indoctrination starts from the infant stage itself. Apart from familial pressures to adopt the societal norms, there is the urge to ‘identify with’. “Much of what we live by and attribute to nature or destiny is, in reality, a pervasive cultural mythology” (Kolbenschlag xiv). Children’s tales or fairy tales are prime examples of where such indoctrinations masquerade. Fairy tales are the primary information of the culture, they become cultural myth. “They delineate the roles, interactions, and values which are available to us” (Dworkin 34). Lieberman in his essay “Some Day My Prince Will Come” draws attention towards the influence of the stories on identity formation, “We must consider the possibility that the classical attributes of ‘feminity’ found in these stories are in fact imprinted in
Literature has shown that FGM is most prevalent in African countries, and often in unsafe conditions. However, this act has become more of a global issue, mainly because of immigration to outside countries, including Canada (Dorkenoo & Elworthy, 2006). The newly globalized nature of FGM has encouraged researchers to increase their focus on both the health and human rights issues involved, which is what we intend to do.... ... middle of paper ... ...
In today’s day and age there are new forms of technology being developed to accomplish just about any task and make any sort of wish possible. With this being said many human beings throw caution to the wind and decide to take action on their every want and need. When it comes to the process of procreating and bringing a child into this world parents can find themselves hoping and wishing for one gender over another. In order to ensure that the gender they want is what they get parents can go through variations of processes in order to select the desired gender for their baby. Many in today’s world have deemed these sorts of practices unethical and immoral and some forms of religion refuse the idea of it. “The prospect of preconception gender selection appears to pose the conflict—long present in other bioethical issues—between individual desires and the larger common good. Yet doing so leads to the risk that children will be treated as vehicles of parental satisfaction rather than as ends in themselves, and could accelerate the trend toward negative and even positive selection of offspring characteristics” (Robertson 3). In this argumentative essay I will be going through the different areas of controversy surrounding this particular topic and focusing on the immorality of such an act.
Our beliefs grow with us from childhood. From the moment you are born the family influence begin to impact your way of thinking. A child is like a sponge that absorbs ideas and beliefs. Beliefs are taught to a child on a daily base, such as just listening to the parents and their opinions from everything including politics and social problems and even opinions about how others behave. In the family is where a child takes there first steps to learns their moral values. It is from their parents that a child is taught right and wrong. In many cases this is through religious training. Religious beliefs or the lack of religious beliefs has a great influence on a person's beliefs and values. A person does not need to have a religious background in order to have values or...
There is a big problem nowadays that all countries, regardless of religion, culture or governmental system, are facing, and that is human rights. Human rights are moral principals that set out certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as legal rights in national and international law.
Female Genital Mutilation also called FGM is a destructive operation. The procedure consists of the female genitals being partly or entirely removed or injured with the goals of inhibiting a woman’s sexual feelings. Before the girls hit puberty is usually when it is performed. This often happens to girls between the age of four and eight, but recently it is increasingly performed on nurslings who are only a couple of days, weeks or months old. The female clitoris is anatomically analogous to the male penis and plays a central role in women’s sexuality. The equivalent of mutilation performed on the male will be amputation in various degrees of the penis. In its comparable extreme form, of the penis will be stitched together so as to make sexual intercourse and other bodily functions difficult. Many people are concerned because of the human rights and health issues that are involved in it. FGM is a human rights issue because it constitutes an unacceptable violation of the rights of the girl, child, and adult women to their natural sexuality. International human right covenants underscore the obligations of the United Nations member States to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights, including the rights to non-discrimination to integrity of the person and to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
There are many approaches to parenting and everyone has their own preferences as to what they think is best. In a fast paced rush around society, it is hard to know what the best choices are for your children. There is a struggle to balance what needs to be done with what can be done, and this has negative and positive feedback on the children. Parents play a critical role in shaping and guiding their children into functional confident adults. An effective parent will learn as they teach in order to grow into understanding with their children.
Every human being should be entitled to freedom; even if it involves escaping from one’s cultural practices and/or beliefs in order to survive. For instance, “the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), or female circumcision, is widespread in many African countries” (Burnor & Raley 68). A female genital mutilation is a procedure in which a woman’s clitoris is removed; this procedure diminishes the sexual pleasure in which a woman can experience during sexual intercourse (Burnor & Raley). Human beings have control of their bodies; therefore, women from different African countries have the right to choice rather or not they wish to undergo a female genital mutilation.
A child is like a sponge that absorbs ideas and beliefs. Beliefs are taught to a child in subtle ways such as just listening to the parents and their opinions from everything including politics, social problems, moral issues and even opinions about how others behave. It is within the family unit that a person learns their moral values. It is from their parents that a child is taught right and wrong. Often this is through religious training. Religious beliefs or the lack of religious beliefs has a great influence on a person's beliefs and values.
My Philosophy about Child Development Works Cited Missing A child's development affects how they learn. All children don't fit the norms of development but not all children should be looked down on because of this. The development of the body and mind leads to the development of skills a child learns in life. Teachers need to help the child expand their skills and the knowledge to do the skills well. "Virtually everything a young child does is affected if physical development is delayed" (Charlesworth, 2000).
Article 3, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, states “everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person” (Goodhart, 379). This article creates cultural discrepancies that are rooted in interpreting undefined and ambiguous language. For example, there are cultural disputes concerning the definition of a “person”. In many monotheistic cultures abortion is considered a crime. Advocates of this opinion support that a fetus is a human being from conception. Under these pretenses it is the right of a fetus to live, and any women who commits abortion, regardless of the circumstances, is in violation of the fetus’s human rights. To eliminate this cultural disagreement, it is necessary to succinctly define the terms in the article. For example, the article could read: “every breathing human has the right to life, liberty and the security of a person”. Under these changes, the definition protects the life of all breathing human; eliminating the cultural discrepancy of what constitutes a life. In due course, the ...
The doctrine of human rights were created to protect every single human regardless of race, gender, sex, nationality, sexual orientation and other differences. It is based on human dignity and the belief that no one has the right to take this away from another human being. The doctrine states that every ‘man’ has inalienable rights of equality, but is this true? Are human rights universal? Whether human rights are universal has been debated for decades. There have been individuals and even countries that oppose the idea that human rights are for everybody. This argument shall be investigated in this essay, by: exploring definitions and history on human rights, debating on whether it is universal while providing examples and background information while supporting my hypothesis that human rights should be based on particular cultural values and finally drawing a conclusion.